From the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia, eight people were said to have been injured when the city was bombed twice on Thursday afternoon. The announcement was made by the region’s governor, Olexander Staruch, on Telegram on Thursday night. A rocket landed near a bridge on the island of Khortytsia.
At that time, an evacuation train in the direction of Lviv (formerly Lemberg) passed over the bridge’s tracks. As a result of the explosion from the explosion, the windows of four carriages were broken, as were the windows of the cars that were currently on the bridge. In a second impact, the buildings of a sanatorium were damaged.
From the Dnipropetrovsk region, it was said that on Thursday night the railway infrastructure was attacked in the Novomoskovsk district, northeast of the regional capital Dnipro. As a result of three rocket attacks, five people were injured and the railway tracks were completely destroyed, regional administration chief Valentyn Resnichenko wrote on Telegram.
An explosion was reported in the southern city of Mykolaiv late on Thursday. “Recently, another explosion thundered over the city,” the city’s mayor, Olexander Senkevych, wrote on Telegram late on Thursday. He urged the city’s citizens to observe the nightly curfew. One person was killed in the city on Thursday night and two others were injured in the bombing. All three were out on the street despite the curfew.
24 hours without gaining ground
According to Ukrainian information, Russian troops have not made any gains on the main fronts in the last 24 hours. Russia also understands that it cannot take the Mariupol steel plant by force, Oleksiy Arestovych, who is a close adviser to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, said on Thursday.
“They can’t take Azovstal, they understand that, they have huge losses there.” Ukrainian defenders continued to maintain the steel industry. Arestovych was responding to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order to abandon the seizure of the Azov Valley works and instead close it completely.
Putin no longer sees any reason to invade the industrial area of Mariupol. The corresponding plans would no longer be implemented, he said on Thursday. However, the system must be blocked in such a way that not even a fly can pass undetected. Gaining control of the port city in southeastern Ukraine is a success.
According to Russian sources, peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are continuing. Russia is still awaiting a response to its latest proposals related to the deliberations, said Presidential Office spokesman Dmitry Peskov. We are surprised by Ukrainian President Zelenskyy’s statement that he had not seen the latest proposals. Zelenskyy said on Wednesday that he had not seen or heard anything about a document the Russian leadership sent to Ukraine. He told “Standard” (online edition) that Ukraine would not accept Moscow as a trading venue.
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