Rome, April 18, 2022 The Russian offensive in the East “has begun”. At the end of the 54th day of War of Russia in Ukraine The confirmation of the final attack came in the evening from the Ukrainian governor of the Lugansk region, Sergey Gaidai: “It’s hell. The offensive has begun, the one we have been talking about for weeks.” Declaring: “There are fighting in Rubizhne and Popasna, incessant fighting in other peaceful towns.” “We can say that the Russians did it the battle for the Donbass has begun “, announced the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a video message on social media. The Ukrainian leader assured: “Any number of Russian soldiers will be sent to our territory we will fight to the end”.
The day at the front began and continued with news of the realignment in southeastern Ukraine of the Moscow Armed Forces, aided by pounding air and missile cover. The Pentagon had warned that the Kremlin was moving “heavy artillery and aircraft.” And indeed, Moscow wasted no time: the attack began as soon as the Kremlin announced it grouping complete Troops in the East Russian Ministry of Defense: “Moving additional troops will strengthen the offensive group.
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This conflict is also a “genocide,” reiterated the President Zelenskyj of a broken country. “The Russians want to level Mariupol at any price,” according to the Kiev government. The city “continues to fight”, but after more than a month of siege “doesn’t exist anymore‘ Minister Kuleba stressed. One hundred and fifty children According to an NGO, they were forcibly removed from the city while they were for Zelenskyj 5,000 children were “deported” from the Mariupol region of Russia since the beginning of the invasion “because they didn’t allow him to go to the Ukrainian side. These” children. Where am I? Nobody knows,” said Zelenskyy.
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Zelenskyj: “We will fight to the end”
“We will not take anything Ukrainian: I am grateful to all our defenders, all our cities in Donbass and Kharkiv region resistance against the forces of the occupiers”. According to the Ukrainian president, “the Russian army is not reducing the amount of missiles it is firing at Ukraine” but finds a flaw in Moscow’s calculations: “They don’t understand that without being able to import the components They will not be able to renew their military arsenal”. “And if the sanctions get even tougher, it will be impossible to modernize military production,” he added, hoping against Putin’s suggestion: “All these attacks will lead to the ‘demilitarization’ of the Russian Federation itself.”
“They want to literally destroy the Donbass,” Zelenskyy had always anticipated today. “They want to destroy everything that once gave glory to this industrial region. Just as Russian troops are destroying Mariupol, they want to wipe out other cities and towns in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.” He reiterated the call to send new weapons to Ukraine, stressing that the fate of the upcoming battle depends on “those who have the weapons and ammunition we need and hold back” from delivering them to Kyiv.
The bombs and the fighting
Just from Mariupol came the commandant’s appeal Azov battalion who demanded a humanitarian corridor to evacuate hundreds of civilians hiding in the Azovstal Steelworks. Denys Prokopenko He spoke of the wives, children and families of the city’s defenders hiding in the basement of the factory.
But he is not alone Mariupol the goal of the Russians: four missiles hit the region of Lviv, near the border of Ukraine with Poland. To have claimed Moscow with this bomb attack destroyed a significant amount of weapons just arrived from the west. At least it is 6 dead including a child and 8 injured the budget of the bombing while four civilians who tried to escape this morning KreminnaCity in the Lugansk region of today under the control of Moscow, were killed by Russian soldiers. In Bucha, however, the mayor estimates that “it was killed one in five residents of those who remained in the city during the occupation by the Russian army”.
269 people were killed in Irpin by the Russian military,” denounced Serhiy Pantelieiev, deputy head of the investigative department of the national police. Seven locations were identified where they were carried out the executions in the city northwest of Kyiv
On the other hand, Moscow claims to have struck 315 military facilities during last night’s bombing of Ukraine and after he shot down three Ukrainian planes: two Mig29s and one Su25. Among the targets bombed, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said, were 18 command centers, 22 artillery batteries, a missile system and 275 troop concentration points. Bombings using Iskander missiles also “cleared four weapons depots”.
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Two British Citizens who fought with Ukrainian troops and were captured by the Russians appeared on Moscow television and they appealed to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, asking for his release in an exchange with Viktor Medvedchuk, the oligarch and MP of the Ukrainian opposition who was arrested by the Kiev secret service in recent days. The two Brits, Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, have been defined by the Russian authorities as “Mercenaries” captured during the fighting in Ukraine. “Mr Boris Johnson says Pinner in a video broadcast by the 60 Minutes program of the state television channel Rossiya 1 I ask that I and Aiden Aslin be exchanged for Mr Medvedchuk. Of course, I would greatly appreciate your help in this matter estimate.” Almost simultaneously, Ukrainian television broadcast a video of less than 30 seconds in which Medvedchuk appealed to Putin and Zelenskyy, proposing to be released in exchange for safe conduct so that Ukrainian forces besieged in Mariupol and residents could leave the city.
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