The Russian vice is loosening in certain regions of Ukraine where the resistance even managed to repel the enemy yesterday, while other cities are still crumbling under the violent assaults.
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” The city [d’Irpin] is now liberated, but it is still dangerous to be there,” Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky said yesterday of the disputed major city at the capital’s northwest entrance.
Despite this, the fighting still continued there, with about twenty strong explosions of shells during the day.
Ukrainian soldiers have also regained control of Mala Rogan, a village about 4 km from Kharkiv, in the east of the country. The bodies of 25 Russian soldiers were strewn on the ground, said a Ukrainian soldier.
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A soldier crosses the body of a Russian soldier after the Ukrainian army took over the village of Mala Rogan, east of Kharkiv.
“The Russians don’t care about their dead, they don’t want them back,” commented a noncommissioned officer with disgust.
The capture of Mala Rogan “is of great importance, because it is from there that [les soldats russes] were constantly bombing residential areas of the city,” Kharkiv mayor Igor Terekhov told local media.
In some towns, such as Mykolaiv, a lock town on the road to Odessa – Ukraine’s largest port – residents have been able to breathe after terrible weeks during which the Russian army tried in vain to take their city. .
Hard wall to break through
But on the outskirts of the capital, Russian soldiers were still trying to break through the defenses towards Kyiv to block roads and supplies there.
Two high-voltage lines were damaged in the fighting, leaving 82,000 people without electricity.
The port city of Mariupol has fallen “into Russian hands” after weeks of horror and thousands of deaths, said Mayor Vadym Boichenko. The situation is such that the UN urges the establishment of a “humanitarian ceasefire” to rescue civilians.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said yesterday that they had evidence of the use of cluster munitions – weapons prohibited by international conventions – in areas sheltering civilians in Ukraine.
These weapons can contain several dozen mini-bombs which disperse, but not all of them explode and thus become anti-personnel mines.
Indignation morale
Faced with the humanitarian crisis that is not improving, US President Joe Biden created quite an uproar on Saturday by spontaneously declaring that ” [Vladimir Poutine] cannot stay in power.
He yesterday refused to withdraw his words, nevertheless qualifying that they expressed his “moral indignation”, but not a policy aimed at “overthrowing Putin”.
For its part, Ukraine said it was “ready” to start discussions on the neutrality of its country during the talks which will be held today in Turkey.
The conflict has already cost Ukraine more than 500 billion euros, and more than ten million refugees have fled their homes.
– With Roxane Trudel
The true face of war
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