“The attack on Lviv is a message for Biden“The mayor of the city in western Ukraine is convinced of this, which in the past few hours has been the target of Russian raids for the second time since the start of the military operation in Moscow.
Meanwhile, the noise does not fall to paraphrase US President Joe Biden, who yesterday in Poland, where he was visiting the American military, called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “tyrant” who “cannot stay in power”. The White House was quick to point out that Biden had no intention of urging regime change, a backdrop suggested at the time by The Washington Post, which, citing sources, says US officials were surprised by the American president: in the held Speech in Warsaw there was no indication that Putin could not remain in power. Biden spoke off the cuff, clarified.
And a new tragic death toll from the war is coming. Since the Russian invasion began, 139 Ukrainian children have been killed in the war, according to information from the Attorney General’s Office reported on Telegram and quoted by Ukrinform. More than 205 children were injured.
Meanwhile from the front Fragmented information on the status of the fighting continues to arrive: Press sources report that Ukrainian forces have gained ground and also regained control of some urban centers. According to the Kyiv Independent, the two towns of Poltavka and Malynivka in the southeastern Zaporizhia region were liberated, while it was previously reported that the Kiev military had captured the town of Trostyanets in the northern Sumy region. Ukrainian forces have also successfully repelled Russian attacks in the Donetsk and Lugansk (east) regions in the past 24 hours, the Kyiv Independent reports. During the same period, Kiev soldiers destroyed eight Russian tanks, eleven armored vehicles and other military vehicles, and one mortar. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, one plane, 12 unmanned aerial vehicles and two cruise missiles were also shot down.
CNN reports that it has reviewed several videos showing them Ukrainian troops again control several villages in the Sumy region, and Vilkhivka, a center 32 km from the Russian border to the northeast. The public prosecutor’s office in Ukraine also speaks of another Russian attack yesterday near Kyiv, in which four people were injured, including a child. The raid hit the town of Boyarka, about 20 km southeast of the Ukrainian capital.
Attacks and combat are also a particular concern of the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, for workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after the Russian military yesterday seized the nearby town of Slavutych, where many of the plant’s employees live. In particular, IAEA director Rafael Mariano Grossi said he was concerned workers could switch off, respect shifts and return home to Slavutych to rest. At the moment it is known that the last rotation dated from March 2021, when a group gave change to colleagues who had been at the plant since the day before the Russian military invaded the plant premises. It is currently unknown whether and when the next change will be possible.
For this 32nd day of the war, which has just begun, there is no lack of message and the appeal by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who returns in the usual video message to ask for military aid from the West, this time declaring that it is the only way to save the martyred city of Mariupol. “It’s impossible to save Mariupol without other tanks and planes,” he said. “Ukraine he declared cannot shoot down Russian missiles with rifles and machine guns,” denouncing the slowness in supplying his country. “Who leads the EuroAtlantic community? Is it still Moscow, through intimidation?” he asked controversially.