Cover photo: People flee to a metro station in Kiev during an air raid on March 9, 2023. STAFF / Portal
- Six people were killed in massive Russian missile and drone strikes in Ukraine on Thursday, the largest in weeks. Russia has called the attacks, which it carried out using new hypersonic Kinjal missiles, “retaliation” for a March 2 incursion into its territory by Ukrainian “saboteurs”.
- A part of the Ukrainian population was deprived of power after these attacks. The strikes cut electricity, water and heating in Kharkiv, a major city in the north-east, and deprived 40% of heating users in Kiev, according to local authorities.
- The gigantic Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, which was occupied by the Russian army, was also briefly cut off from the Ukrainian power grid.raise fears of a nuclear accident.
- “We have already shown what Ukraine is capable of”said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday evening. “And no matter how treacherous Russia’s actions, our state and people will not be chained. »
- In eastern Ukraine, the battle for the iconic city of Bakhmout rages on. After announcing the day before the capture of the eastern part of the city, the head of Russia’s Wagner Group paramilitary organization, Evgueni Prigojine, said on Thursday that his fighters had captured the small village of Doubovo-Vassylivka north of Bakhmout.
- In Moldova, the pro-Russian separatists of Transnistria assured on Thursday that Ukraine wanted to carry out an attack in the center of their capital, Tiraspol to “eliminate” their leaders and cause “a large number of casualties”. Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean said he had “no confirmation” of these allegations.
- In Vilnius, theFor his part, the head of the Lithuanian military intelligence service believes that Moscow has enough resources to continue its offensive in Ukraine at the current pace for two years..
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