More than 41,000 people, including 1,120 children, are seeking shelter underground in Kiev. This is the symbolic image of the day of the bombing experienced by the capital and the whole of Ukraine. Between drones and missiles, Russian forces rained fire from the sky, also hitting Odessa, with damage to the port due to the fire following the falling debris, and the Dnipropetrovsk region, the same where a hospital was hit last week. Not only. Russian bombs also hit Kherson and Donetsk. Kiev also denounced the attack on a Khmelnitsky military base and the destruction of 5 fighter planes. And Moscow claimed the annihilation of several strategic targets, including “command posts, radar posts, aviation equipment, weapons and ammunition depots of the Ukrainian armed forces”. Moscow, for its part, complained about new attacks on its territory.
Once again, the Belgorod region was targeted, where at least one person died, with Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov urging residents to find shelter as attacks hit the city of Shebekino and some villages. After several days of attacks on the region, Gladkov asked to guarantee its security by “annexing Kharkiv to Belgorod”, considered the best solution to “solve the problem of bombing”.
A request that the Kremlin, through its spokesman Dmitry Peskov, chose not to comment on, as it deals with a matter that concerns “issues related to the special military operation”. On the other hand, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhailo Podolyak spoke about Belgorod, calling for “demilitarization of 100-120 km on the territory of the republics of Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk and Rostov”. Measure to be taken “to ensure real security for residents of Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Donetsk regions”.
With the multiplication of fronts, the times of a war that Valdimir Putin believed could end in a few weeks lengthened. A conflict poorly managed by Moscow, according to the founder of the Wagner group, Yevgheny Prigozhin, who spared no further criticism. “If you start a war, you must have character, will and attributes of steel, only then will you be able to achieve something,” Prigozhin said, referring to reading from the American Institute for the Study of War. A Putin who, for his part, sanctioned Russia’s withdrawal from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (Cfe), from which Moscow, incidentally, had already suspended itself in 2015. A decision that comes on the same day that O Interior da Russia The ministry has decided to put US Senator Lindsey Graham on the wanted list for her “Russophobic statements”.
And while, on the other side of the fence, the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, adopted very tough sanctions against Iran, for a period of 50 years. The measure, in particular, provides for a total ban on commercial operations, the suspension of the transit of resources, flights and transport in the territory of Ukraine and the impediment of the withdrawal of capital by residents of Iran. Furthermore, it is intended to prohibit any investment in Iran and the transfer by residents of technologies, property rights and intellectual property rights.
Source: IL Tempo
John Cameron is a journalist at The Nation View specializing in world news and current events, particularly in international politics and diplomacy. With expertise in international relations, he covers a range of topics including conflicts, politics and economic trends.
