Ukrainian Neptune missile. Photo: Reprinted from KKNews
The Russian-Ukrainian war has entered its eighth week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told CNN yesterday (15) that since the seven-week war with Russia, the Ukrainian army has about 2,500 to 3,000 troops. killed and about 10,000 wounded. The head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration in western Ukraine said today (16) that the Ukrainian air defense system shot down a Russian cruise missile fired at the Lviv region in the morning.
“On the morning of April 16, the Su-35 aircraft of the Russian occupiers fired missiles at the Lviv region,” said Maksym Kozytsky, head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration. “The Western Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Air Force The command’s anti-aircraft missile unit destroyed four cruise missiles.” He added that the Russian aircraft that fired the missiles took off from Baranovich airfield in neighboring Belarus.
Previously, Belarus had been used by Russia as a springboard for many air operations in Ukraine, according to intelligence gathered by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) reconnaissance aircraft. In response, the Ukrainian military has said it has shot down several missiles fired from Belarus into its territory.
And after Russia failed to gain the positions it wanted around the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, troops retreated to Belarus to regroup and redeploy. In addition, Belarus is also recognized as an important ally of Russia in the world. While NATO fears the Kremlin may call on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to deploy troops to support Moscow’s forces on the battlefield, U.S. President Joe Biden imposed dual regimes on the two countries on April 8. ruling. One of the bills suspends Russia’s normal trade relations with Belarus and punishes those countries by imposing higher import tariffs on them; the other bans energy imports from Russia, including oil, coal and natural gas.
In addition, the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine said in a statement today that 200 children have been killed in Ukraine since the Russian-Ukrainian war. The office added that to date, more than 360 children have been injured during the war. Five children were injured and two were killed, including a seven-month-old baby, in a Russian attack in Kharkiv on the 15th, the office continued.
Finally, the office added that a multi-beam munition was detonated on the outskirts of the settlement of Novi Vorontsovka in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson region on the 14th, injuring a 15-year-old boy. Earlier, UNICEF said nearly two-thirds of Ukrainian children were now displaced due to the ongoing conflict in Russia and Ukraine. Manuel Fontaine, director of emergency programmes at the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), told the UN Security Council on Sunday that he had “seldom seen such devastation in such a short period of time” since returning from a visit to Ukraine.
The Russian-Ukrainian war has entered its eighth week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told CNN yesterday (15) that since the seven-week war with Russia, the Ukrainian army has about 2,500 to 3,000 troops. killed and about 10,000 wounded.
The head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration in western Ukraine said today (16) that the Ukrainian air defense system shot down a Russian cruise missile fired at the Lviv region in the morning.
The Russian army continued to invade Lviv, where local demonstrators protested in front of the Russian consulate against home appliances looted by the Russian army, which were painted with red paint and signs. Photo: Dazhi Image/Archyde.com (file photo)
Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, was devastated by artillery fire.Figure: Flip Aleph א Twitter