President Volodymyr Zelensky blamed Moscow for causing maximum damage, but pledged that Ukraine would “tolerate” the conflict.
President Volodymyr Zelensky blamed Moscow for causing maximum damage, but pledged that Ukraine would “tolerate” the conflict.
Ukraine’s Atomic Energy Agency accuses Russia of using Europe’s largest nuclear power plant for weapons storage Open the areas around Nikopol and Dnipro which hit on July 16th.
for more than 20 weeks Russia invades its neighborWith thousands killed and millions displaced Ukrainians, the war-ravaged nation’s president Volodymyr Zelensky blamed Moscow for seeking maximum damage, but pledged that Ukraine would “tolerate” the conflict.
Petro Kotin, chairman of Ukraine’s nuclear agency Energoatom, described the situation at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant as “extremely tense”, with more than 500 Russian troops controlling the plant.
The plant in southeast Ukraine has been under Russian control since the early weeks of the Moscow invasion, although it is still operated by Ukrainian employees.
“The occupiers bring their machinery there, including the missile systems they are already shelling on the other side of the Dnipro River and in the area of Nikopol,” he said in a Ukrainian television interview broadcast on Friday.
Dnipro regional governor Valentin Reznichenko said Russian missiles hit residential buildings in the city of Nikopol on Saturday, killing two people.
In the northeastern region around Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv, Governor Oleg Sinegubov said an overnight Russian missile attack killed three people in the city of Chuguiv.
In the central Ukraine city of Vinnitsa, officials said the death toll in Russian attacks rose to 24 after a woman died in hospital on Saturday. Ukraine said three children were among the dead.
“Sixty-eight people, including four children, are undergoing treatment. Four people are still missing,” said Vinnytsia district chief Sergei Borzov.
‘brutal blow’
Mr Zelensky angrily accused Russia of bombing campaigns that inflicted “maximum damage” on Ukrainian cities, and urged civilians to heed signs of airstrikes.
In an address on Saturday evening, Mr Zelensky said Ukraine had “withstanded the brutal blows of Russia” and had managed to recapture some of the territories lost since the start of the war, and eventually more occupied land. will take over again.
“We will endure. We will win,” he said, and “rebuild our lives.”
Russia claimed that the attack in Vinnytsia – hundreds of kilometers from the frontline fighting – had killed Ukrainian military officers and foreign arms suppliers.
But Ukraine said among the dead was four-year-old Liza Dmitrieva, who had Down syndrome and whose death caused a wave of mourning after photos of her final moments went viral on social media.
Lisa’s mother’s condition is critical after the surgery.
The missile strikes on Vinnytsia were the latest attacks to take a heavy civilian toll and came less than a week after the attack on Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region, which killed about 50 people.
Leaning on her cane, Olga Dekyanenko walks east through the rubble and rubble of her home in Konstantinovka, an industrial town on the front line that was heavily damaged in a Russian attack early Saturday.
Dekanenko was sleeping when this happened. His small bedroom overlooks the garden where the rocket landed. She got up on the ground covered with blankets, pillows and stones.
“We’re alive, it’s a good day,” tells 67-year-old Dekyanenko AFP With a tired smile.
‘Clearing’ Donbas Town
A two-day meeting of finance ministers of the Group of 20 major economies to seek solutions to the food and energy crises caused by the war but without a joint communiqué in Indonesia on Saturday after the conflict divided the global forum ended.
Failure to agree on a joint communiqué will hinder coordinated efforts to address rising inflation and food shortages.
Canada meanwhile described Moscow’s participation in the G20 meeting as “absurd”, with Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland telling Bali that Russia’s presence was “like inviting an arsonist to a meeting of firefighters”.
In Ukraine, the heaviest fighting has recently focused on the industrial Donbass region in the east, where trench fighting and artillery fighting have been turned into a war of grind.
Moscow-backed separatists said on Friday they were closing in on their next target, Siversk, after taking control of sister cities Lisychensk and Severodonetsk, some 30 kilometers to the east of it.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Saturday that Ukrainian soldiers were targeted in the attack.
And Donetsk separatist official Daniil Versonov said rebel fighters were “eliminating” Svirsk’s eastern districts in small groups.
Ukraine has repeatedly urged allies to supply advanced, long-range precision artillery systems that would allow it to target Russian forces within Ukrainian-occupied territory.