Due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the number of civilians is increasing in many places, due to which there has been a war of migration in many places.
Due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the number of civilians is increasing in many places, due to which there has been a war of migration in many places.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky angrily warned Moscow that it was sowing deep hatred for Russia among its people, as relentless artillery barrages and aerial bombardments were turning cities into rubble, killing civilians and others. taking them to shelters, forcing them to wander for food and water. Survived.
“You are doing everything so that our people themselves leave the Russian language, because the Russian language will now only be associated with you, your explosions and killings, your crimes,” Zelensky said in an emotional video address late Saturday.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created a state of war in many places, increasing the toll on civilians as Moscow tries to freeze cities from a state of incursion.
A nuclear research facility in the city of Kharkiv near the Russian border came under fire again on Saturday, and Ukraine’s nuclear watchdog said it was impossible to assess the extent of the damage due to the ongoing hostilities.
Since the start of the invasion Kharkiv has been besieged by Russian forces and has received repeated shelling which affected residential buildings and vital infrastructure.
Ukrainian officials have previously reported that Russian shelling damaged buildings at the facility, but there was no release of radiation. The International Atomic Energy Agency has stated that nuclear material at the facility is always sub-critical and the list of radioactive material is very short, reducing radiation exposure.
In the western part of the country, Russian rockets struck Lviv on Saturday, while President Joe Biden visited neighboring Poland, serving as a reminder that Moscow should focus its claims on the country’s east. Despite this, Ukraine is ready to attack anywhere.
Early on Sunday, a chemical smell still persisted in the air as firefighters in Lviv sprayed water on the burned area of an oil facility in a Russian attack.
A security guard at the site, Yaroslav Prokopyev, said he saw three rockets hit and destroy two oil tanks but no one was hurt.
“The third strike threw me to the ground,” he said.
Russia’s back-to-back airstrikes rocked a city that has become a haven for an estimated 200,000 people who have had to flee their hometowns. Lviv had been largely spared since the invasion began, although missiles had struck an aircraft repair facility near the main airport a week earlier.
In a dim, overcrowded bomb shelter beneath an apartment block just a short distance from the site of the first blast, Olana Ukrainetes, a 34-year-old IT professional, said she couldn’t believe she had to hide again after fleeing the northeastern city . Kharkiv, one of the most bombed cities of the war.
“We were on one side of the road and looked on the other side,” she said. “We saw the fire. I said to my friend, ‘What is this?’ That’s when we heard an explosion and shattered glass. We tried to hide between the buildings. I don’t know what the target was.”
Two cities on opposite ends of the country are currently suffering the worst, Chernihiv in the north – strategically located on the road from the Belarusian border to the capital Kyiv – and Mariupol, a major port city, in the south. Sea of Azov.
Both are surrounded by Russian forces, but are still held.
Chernihiv has been under attack since the early days of the invasion, and during the past week, Russia destroyed the main vehicular bridge out of the city and made the nearby pedestrian bridge impassable, allowing civilians to escape or for food. Cut off the last route. And bring medicine.
The remaining residents of Chernihiv are horrified that every explosion, bomb and body lying on the streets traps them in the same dreadful web of inevitable killings and destruction.
“In the basement at night, everyone is doing one thing: Chernihiv is becoming the next Mariupol,” said 38-year-old Ihar Kazmerchak, a linguistics scholar.
he talked The Associated Press From the cellphone, it was continuously beeping to indicate that it was running out of battery. The city is without electricity, running water and heating. In pharmacies, the list of drugs that are no longer available grows day by day.
Kazmerchaks start their day in long lines for drinking water, which amounts to 10 liters (2 gallons) per person. When the trucks carrying water make rounds, people come to fill empty bottles and buckets.
“The food is running out, and the shelling and bombing don’t stop,” he said.
Mayor Vladislav Atroshenko said more than half of the city’s 280,000 residents had already fled and hundreds had been killed.
The Russian military has bombed residential areas from low altitudes in “absolutely clear weather” and “deliberately destroying civilian infrastructure: schools, kindergartens, churches, residential buildings and even local football stadiums, Atroshenko told Ukrainian television.
Refugees from Chernihiv who fled the siege and arrived in Poland this week spoke of widespread and horrific destruction, with at least two schools in the city center being bombed and stadiums, museums and several homes attacked.
He said that due to the shutdown of utilities, people are taking water from Desna for drinking and people are dying due to the strike when they are standing in queue for food. Volodymyr Fedorovich, 77, said he narrowly escaped a bomb that fell on a bread line he was standing on moments earlier. He said 16 people were killed and dozens injured in the explosion, which left limbs and limbs amputated.
Kazmerchak said the siege was so intense that some of those trapped could no longer muster the strength to fear.
“The houses, the fire, the corpses in the street, the giant plane bomb that didn’t explode in the courtyard, no one is surprised now,” he said. “People are just tired of being scared and don’t always even go to the basement.”
Britain’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday it did not expect relief for civilians in Ukraine’s bombed cities any time soon.
“Russia will continue to use its heavy firepower in urban areas as it seeks to limit its already considerable damage, and at the cost of civilian casualties,” the UK ministry said.
Previous bombings of hospitals and other non-military sites, including a theater in Mariupol, where Ukrainian officials said a Russian airstrike believed to have killed 300 people last week, have already given rise to war crimes charges. .
The invasion has driven more than 10 million people out of their homes, almost a quarter of Ukraine’s population. Of them, according to the United Nations, more than 3.7 million have fled the country altogether. Thousands of civilians are believed to have been killed.