Two people died and five others were injured in Kherson after Russian attacks rocked the city in southern Ukraine overnight. An 81-year-old woman was then the victim of a subsequent attack that hit an apartment building. Governor Oleksandr Prokudin announced this this morning. Instead, a Russian missile attack on Kiev injured at least ten people, including a nine-year-old girl. Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced this via Telegram. Another five people were injured in the central Ukrainian city of Cherkasy, which was also shelled by Moscow forces this morning. This was announced by regional governor Ihor Taburets.
Ukraine’s air defense forces said they shot down 36 of 43 Russian cruise missiles fired over Ukraine last night. The Kh-101, Kh-555 and Kh-55 missiles were fired in several waves by ten Tu-95MS strategic aircraft from the area west of Engels. According to initial information, the enemy fired Kh-101/555/55 cruise missiles. “Rocket debris fell in several parts of the capital. There was damage to a gas pipeline in the Shevchenkivskyi district. In the Darnytskyi district, non-residential buildings and parked cars were damaged by debris, causing a fire to break out -The flight alert in Kiev lasted more than two hours. “The capital has already reached the threshold of 1,000 alert hours since the beginning of the large-scale invasion,” recalled the head of the city’s military administration, Serhii Popko, quoted by the Ukrinform agency: urging citizens “not to ignore warnings of air strikes” .
Ukraine has warned of “difficult months ahead” following the “massive” Russian missile attack that hit several cities in the country overnight. “Difficult months await us: Russia will continue to attack Ukraine’s energy and basic services facilities,” wrote the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Oleksiy Kuleba, on Telegram.
According to Moscow, Russian air defense forces destroyed 19 Ukrainian drones over the Black Sea and Crimea tonight, as well as three more over the Belgorod, Kursk and Oryol regions. “An attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack on facilities on Russian soil using unmanned aerial vehicles was foiled,” the Moscow Defense Ministry said, citing the Tass agency.
Poland distances itself: “We will no longer give Kiev weapons”
In the middle of the counteroffensive, Kiev loses one of its most loyal allies. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a television interview that Poland “will not deliver any more weapons to Ukraine, because now that we are arming ourselves, we have to defend ourselves.” An unexpected statement a few hours after Warsaw summoned the Ukrainian ambassador “urgently.” , to protest against the attack by Zelensky, who in his speech at the United Nations pointed the finger at some countries for which there is only solidarity with Ukraine. political theater,” while their actions “are preparing the ground for Russia.”
If US President Biden announces a new military aid package in bilateral talks with the Ukrainian president tomorrow – which, however, does not seem to be the expected ATACMS – Kiev will lose its closest ally, including geographically, linked to Ukraine by the Russian threat felt. “Ukraine – said the Polish Prime Minister – is defending itself against a brutal attack by Russia, and I understand this situation, but as I said, we will defend our country. “We will no longer transfer weapons to Ukraine because now we are arming Poland,” he said when the reporter asked him about Warsaw’s military and humanitarian support to Kiev despite tensions over grain.
In fact, Polish-Ukrainian relations had been significantly complicated for months by Warsaw’s embargo on Kiev’s wheat imports. The Polish government wants to keep Ukrainian seeds outside its borders to protect its farmers, who represent an important voter base for the current ruling party. Tensions worsened after the European Commission’s decision not to extend import restrictions on Kiev wheat and the refusal of Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to lift the ban.
GB, Russian troops with low morale cannot advance
The lack of regular rotation of non-combat units is most likely one of the most important factors contributing to the low morale of the Russian Armed Forces and the inability of the Moscow Army to conduct higher level training since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, writes the British Ministry of Defense in his daily intelligence update.
The lack of such training most likely contributes to Russia’s difficulties in successfully conducting complex offensive operations, we read in the report published in X. London experts recall that today is the anniversary of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement of “partial mobilization” in 2022, “in which around 300,000 Russian reservists were called up for service in Ukraine.
Last Friday, the ministry adds, the chairman of the Defense Committee of the Russian State Duma and former general Andrei Kartapolov reiterated that the mobilized personnel are obliged to serve for the entire duration of the “special military operation” and that it is not possible to move personnel out the area of operations: This, London emphasizes, is “a new admission of the difficult situation at the front”.
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