The cruiser Moskva (Moscow) of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, hit by Ukraine’s Neptun missiles yesterday, according to Kyiv, has been abandoned or sunk: CNN reported this morning, confirming uncertainty over the fate of the warship, which Moscow says was instead “seriously damaged” by the explosion of ammunition it was carrying, following a fire that developed on board.
“We have confirmation that the Russian ship was hit. We now fear that the enemy is preparing a response to the city. There is a high probability of missile attacks in our city and region. So this morning the spokesman for the Odessa city government Sergei Bratchuk, after confirming that the Russian crew had abandoned the Moskva cruiser off Odessa after a fire, from which the Ukrainians claim it was caused by their Neptune rockets.
Joe Biden announces to Volodymyr Zelenskyj that he will also send new weapons worth 800 million dollars and directly attracts allegations of genocide in Moscow. “Bucha, Mariuopol, Kramatorsk are all examples of Russia’s human rights abuses in Ukraine,” White House spokesman Jen Psaki said of Joe Biden’s accusation that Putin was committing genocide. “The president spoke about the atrocities committed by Moscow based on what he saw. In the new US weapons package for Ukraine there is also personal protective equipment against chemical weapons. Also on the list are Mi17 helicopters and howitzers. The Pentagon reiterated that the deployment of protective equipment against chemical weapons was based “on the concern we have had for a long time that Moscow could use chemical weapons.”
A position taken by Washington that has provoked the anger of Beijing and Moscow, while from Paris President Macron is questioning the usefulness of an “escalation of words to end the war. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who for the first time invoked the “genocide in Ukraine, sees things differently. “This is not war, this is terrorism,” said Polish President Andrzej Duda during a visit to Kyiv.
Meanwhile, reports the New York Times, the US government is considering sending a highprofile figure to the Ukrainian capital. Not Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, as a giant device incompatible with the theater of war, would need to be deployed to ensure their safety, but rather a government minister or senior military official. However, a decision has not yet been made and will not be announced in advance. Indeed, in the past, visits by American officials to other war zones have only been announced after they have arrived in the country or even upon departure.
In his daily speech, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that “either the Russian leadership will seek peace, or as a result of this war, Russia will disappear from the international scene forever.” In short, a conflict that is not only fought on the spot, but also with words. After proRussian separatists claimed “total control of the port — denied by Kyiv but subsequently reaffirmed by Moscow — Russia now painted an enemy on the ropes, hunched and increasingly demoralized. To the point where 1,026 Ukrainian soldiers would have surrendered, including 162 officers and 47 women soldiers. According to Russian defense spokesman Major Igor Konashenkov, troops “of the 36th Naval Brigade near the Ilyich Steelworks” gave up their weapons and for days were the focus of a backlash over social media with desperate appeals and denials of surrender. And once again Kyiv denied that they gave in. In fact, for Zelenskyy, it is Moscow itself that has doubts about its ability to crush Ukraine.
In Mariupol, says the city’s mayor, Vadym Boychenko, the humanitarian situation is really at an end. “The Russians destroyed the hospitals and the whole city. This is genocide. As long as we resist he stresses Ukraine will also resist. And confirms the toll of “at least twenty thousand civilian victims and the efforts of the Russians to “hide the evidence of the atrocities committed, including using mobile crematorium ovens.
Meanwhile, the Russian offensive continues to focus on the Donbass, where he bombed and regrouped the forces to attempt the final push and seize control of the entire territory of Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts. According to Kyiv, part of the population from these areas in particular has already been “deported to Russia: More than half a million people have been forcibly taken to remote regions of the country, documents and personal items have been confiscated, such as mobile phones, and the separation of children from their parents so that Russian families can illegally adopt them. With the strategic objective centered on the east, Moscow also returns to threaten Kyiv, from which its troops have withdrawn, leaving behind the massacres of Bucha and other satellite cities. Putin’s defense has said it stands ready to hit enemy command centers, including in the capital region, if the Ukrainian army continues its attempts to attack structures in Russia.
Two Neptun antiship missiles were fired in Odessa in the evening, hitting the Russian Black Sea Fleet cruiser Moscow and causing “very heavy damage”. according to Governor Maksym Marchenko. A fire would have started on the cruiser, which has 510 crew members on board. An operation with a strong symbolic effect for Kyiv, since it would be the same ship that stormed the island of snakes and kidnapped the “sailor heroes” who refused to surrender. According to Russian state media, a Russian warship in the Black Sea was “seriously damaged” by the explosion of ammunition on board after a fire broke out on board. “After a fire according to the Russian Ministry of Defense ammunition on the missile cruiser Moskva exploded. The ship was badly damaged. The cause of the fire has been determined. The crew was evacuated.