Russia has carried out two mass rocket attacks on Ukraine On Saturday they vandalized and abandoned a block of flats in Dnipro at least 14 people died and 64 injured, at least a dozen of them children. Rescue efforts were underway in the south-central city on Sunday. At least one person was also killed in a separate strike in a residential area in the nearby town of Kryvyi Rih. Ukrainian authorities said the targets are the country’s energy infrastructure.
The British Prime Minister has confirmed that the country will supply Ukraine with tanks to help the Kiev Armed Forces “push back the Russian troops”. Downing Street said Rishi Sunak made the pledge during a call Saturday morning with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and that Sunak had offered Challenger 2 tanks and additional artillery systems as a sign of “Britain’s desire to step up our support to Ukraine”. . The Russian embassy in the UK said the move would only “exacerbate” the conflict.
Emergency power cuts were decreed in 11 regions of Ukraine after Russian attacks on energy infrastructure. In a post on Telegram, network operator Ukrenegro said that nationwide consumption limits were exceeded in 11 regions, causing “emergency shutdowns to be imposed”.
Four explosions were heard in central Kyiv on Saturday morning. For the first time since Russia began regular rocket and drone attacks on the capital in the fall, air raid sirens sounded after the attack. Previously, sirens would sound 10 to 90 minutes before an attack to give residents time to seek shelter.
Air alerts were also issued across the country, including in the big cities of Kherson and Lviv. Warnings were also issued for the Kharkiv, Donestk, Dnepropetrovsk regions and about a dozen others.
Ukraine has called for more support from its allies after its troops suffered heavy casualties in the fighting at Soledar and Bakhmut in the last few months. Russia on Friday said its forces had taken control of Soledar in eastern Ukraine, its first victory in months of battlefield setbacks, while Kyiv said fierce fighting continued in the city. “To win this war, we need more military equipment, heavy equipment,” said Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukraine’s presidential office, reported Agence France-Presse.
Moldovan authorities said debris from a rocket was found on their territory near the border with Ukraine. They said on Saturday the find came “following Russia’s massive bombing of Ukraine” and it was the third time missiles from the conflict had fallen on Moldovan territory.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has accused Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of shameful subservience to the US and suggested he ritually disembowel himself. His comments on Saturday were the latest in a long line of shocking and provocative statements by archhawk Medvedev, Portal reported. Later on Saturday, a day after a summit with US President Joe Biden, Kishida did not mention Medvedev’s comment