The Ukrainian army said Russian troops opened fire on more than 40 towns in Ukraine’s Donbass region yesterday. As a result, the last escape routes may be closed to civilians. “The invaders bombed more than 40 cities in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions,” the army general staff wrote on Facebook. In addition, 47 public areas were destroyed or damaged, including 38 homes and a school.
But the Ukrainian army also claims that ten enemy attacks were repulsed, four tanks and four drones were destroyed and 62 “enemy soldiers” were killed. Pro-Russian separatists in Donbass say they have detained about 8,000 Ukrainians. The figure has not been independently verified.
I want to conquer completely
Observers expect the Russians to want to completely conquer Luhansk and the adjacent Donetsk region, both of which are in the Donbass region. Part of the area has been under control of pro-Russian rebels since 2014.
A month ago, dozens of seriously ill Ukrainians were evacuated from a nursing home in Donbass because of the war. You can see it in the video below:
Nor did the Ukrainian general rule out further Russian missile strikes in the relatively quiet western part of Ukraine. Ukraine reportedly saw Russia move Iskander missile systems to the Brest region of neighboring Belarus, where Ukraine could be targeted.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, was also bombed. At least seven civilians were killed. Recently, the metropolis began to return to normal life after the end of a Russian offensive. In eastern Ukraine, about fifty kilometers from the Russian border, the weather has been relatively calm since mid-May. Before the war, the city had about 1.5 million inhabitants.
“The goal is clear”
Meanwhile, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz believes President Putin will not succeed. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the head of government said that “Putin has failed in all his strategic goals” and that the conquest of Ukraine is “beyond the start of the war”.
“Our goal is very clear: Putin must not win this war,” Scholz said. “I’m sure he won’t win,” he said. In his speech, he spoke mainly about developing countries in Asia, Africa and South America, which refrain from criticizing the Russian occupation. Hoping to change that, Scholz invited government leaders from India, Indonesia, South Africa, Senegal and Argentina to the G7 summit in Germany next month.
Source: RTL
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