The Ukrainian military says that its soldiers have repelled 102 attacks in past 24 hours in Bakhmut.
KYIV, Ukraine – Russia’s first missile blitz on Ukrainian cities in weeks was met in Kyiv with defiance and disgust over the, while Ukrainian forces defending the eastern town of Bakhmut continued to thwart Russian attempts to break through.
“The occupiers can only terrorize civilians. That’s all they can do,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. “But it won’t help them. They won’t avoid responsibility for everything they have done.” The missiles killed villagers in the western Lviv region, and closer to the frontline in the central Dnipro region, while Russian artillery also killed at least three people in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials said.
Ukrainian military analyst Oleh Zhdanov said the failure of Russian intelligence to identify military targets had led to a “Plan B – demoralizing the population.”Expressing a readiness to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin to call for peace, Pope Francis said in an interview published on Friday thatwas fueled by “imperial interests, not just of the Russian empire, but of empires from elsewhere.
The plant, which Russia has held since capturing it early in the war, is near the front line and both sides have warned in the past of a potential for disaster. Moscow said it was safe.“Each time we are rolling a dice. And if we allow this to continue time after time then one day our luck will run out,” Grossi told the IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors.
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