On Thursday night, another bombing was reported from Ukraine. At least two skyscrapers in the northeastern Saltivka district and several parked cars caught fire after explosions in the city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian newspaper Ukrajinska Pravda reported. While Russia apparently already controls 80 percent of the Luhansk region, Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov announced he would take Mariupol on Thursday.
The Ukrainian Security Council had previously announced that Russia’s major offensive had not yet begun. The attacks that began on Tuesday along the entire front line are likely to be “test attacks”, Council Secretary General Oleksiy Danilov said in a radio interview, the internet newspaper Ukrainska Pravda reported in the evening. from wednesday.
For several days, Kiev has been waiting for the start of a major offensive by Russian troops who, after withdrawing from areas around the capital Kiev and in the northeast of the country in early April, are now repositioning themselves on the Russian border. regions with Ukraine or eastern Ukraine. The US Defense Department had earlier said on Tuesday that it saw the latest Russian attacks only as a sign of a major Moscow offensive. (dpa/reu/apa)