Ukraine: Russia says tanks supplied to Western countries in Kiev have been destroyed

EThe Ukrainian capital is about five weeks long Kiev No threat, now several Russian rockets were fired early Sunday morning. According to Moscow, tanks and other equipment supplied by Western powers to Ukraine were destroyed. Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a telegram that it had deployed high-precision, long-range air-to-air missiles. Initially, it was not confirmed from the Ukrainian side that the tanks had been destroyed.

In a televised interview, Russian President Vladimir Putin made an indirect threat to Western countries supplying arms to Ukraine. Putin said Sunday that if Ukraine acquires long-range missile systems, Russia will use “our destructive methods” to attack “objects we have never hit”. It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post.

Putin said the purpose of the Western arms supply was to prolong the armed conflict as much as possible. He pointed to US plans to supply Kiev with several rocket launcher systems. Putin said such supplies would make little difference to the Ukrainian government, but would only offset the losses of similar long-range missiles it already has. If Kiev receives long-range missiles, Moscow will “make the appropriate decisions and use a number of destructive means at our disposal.”

The Russian Defense Ministry says T-72 tanks and other armored vehicles supplied by Eastern European nations have been destroyed in attacks on the outskirts of Kiev. They were said to be in the building of a car repair shop.

Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko previously said that there were Russian missiles in the city districts early Sunday morning. Tornisky And Diniprovsky Struck. In the process, infrastructure targets, including state railway facilities, were attacked, explained Sergei Leshchenko, an adviser in the office of President Volodymyr Zhelensky, in a telegram.

The High Command of the Ukrainian Air Force said that the cruise missiles were launched from a Tu-95 fighter jet over the Caspian Sea. Anti-aircraft units fired a missile. The operator of the Ukrainian power plant Energoatom said that a cruise missile had flown dangerously near the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant en route to Kyiv, and pointed out the danger of it being missed.

Fierce fighting continues in eastern Ukraine

Progress of the Russian Army Eastern Ukraine Continues to be very hard and lossy. The Ukrainian opposition is unbroken, and there is constant fighting for every square kilometer of territory. At its core, Russia is currently seeking control of three major cities, each with approximately 100,000 inhabitants: Shevzherodonesk, Lisitsansk And Slovenian.

The first two sister cities, located on both sides of the Donetsk River, were the last strongholds of Ukraine in the Luhansk region. Slovenesk is further west – and counts together Gramadorsk As the main city for the conquest of the Donetsk region.

As the fighting for Sievjerodonetsk has been going on for weeks, Sloviansk is increasingly becoming the center of events: Vadym Lyakh, head of the city’s military administration, announced on Saturday that hundreds of refugees are fleeing the city every day. Double,

Residents are taken by bus outside the city or leave the city in their own cars. Three people were killed in a rocket attack last Tuesday.

Of the approximately 110,000 people in the pre-war population, 22,000 now remain. According to reports, up to 100 people flee to Dinibro every day, and 100 to 200 seek refuge in other parts of the country. So far, the evacuations have been uneventful and there have been no shelling.

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According to British sources, Ukrainian troops recently launched a counterattack in Zhevrodonetsk. The Defense Ministry in London said on Sunday that the Russian armed forces may have weakened their previous operational dynamics by concentrating their units and firepower.

It also said that the established Russian forces were the reserves of the self-declaration of the “Luhansk People’s Republic”. These troops are poorly armed and trained and do not have heavy equipment compared to conventional units.

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The ministry said that sending paramilitary forces to destroy cities from the enemy was a tactic Russia had already used in Syria. This approach is believed to have arisen out of a desire to control the casualties of conventional Russian forces.

Ukraine is also attacking Russian territory

Ukraine, meanwhile, appears to be pursuing tactics of attacking Russian territory with needles. According to the Bryansk region, a village on the border with Ukraine was again shelled from a neighboring country. When the shell was thrown in the village of Sluchevsk, one person was injured and two houses caught fire.

The governor of the region Alexander Bokomas announced this on Saturday in his Telegram news channel. He accused Ukrainian forces of firing on the village. The injured resident had to be taken to hospital. The fire has been extinguished. Apart from Bryansk, other Russian territories, including Kursk and Belgorod, have also reported shelling from the Ukrainian side. The government in Kiev does not usually comment on the allegations.

Donetsk Governor Druzhkivka calls on residents to flee

The governor of the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine invited the townspeople Trushkivka Run away. Pavlo Girilenko wrote on Facebook on Sunday that destroyed buildings can be rebuilt, but that human lives cannot be changed. According to him, at least one person was killed in the Russian attack at night. The Russian Defense Ministry has said that workshops repairing damaged Ukrainian military equipment were destroyed in Trushkivka.

People in the area said they woke up to the sound of a rocket attack. The walls and glass were broken. “It was like a horror movie,” Svitlana Romashkina told the AP news agency on Sunday.