2023-05-26 19:16:27
Two people were killed and 30 others injured in a Russian attack on a hospital in the city of Dnipro in eastern Ukraine today, Friday, according to what the Ukrainian Emergency Service announced. For their part, Russian officials accused Ukraine of bombing civilian targets in two regions in southern Russia. Meanwhile, the founder of the Russian military company Wagner announced that he had been assigned His group is fighting on a new front.
Video footage showed a destroyed building billowing of smoke as rescue workers searched. Much of the upper floor of what appeared to be a 3-storey building was damaged. A covered body was seen on a nearby road.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as a crime against humanity, writing on Twitter: “Another (Russian) missile attack, another crime against humanity.”
He said a mental health clinic and a veterinary clinic had been damaged in Dnipro. “Only an evil country can hit clinics. There can be no military purpose behind this. It is pure Russian terrorism,” he said.
The governor of the Dnipro region, Serhiy Lysak, said that two children were among the injured, at a time when it was not possible to communicate with 3 people who are believed to have been in the building when the missile hit it.
For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that it carried out a raid during the night on Ukrainian ammunition depots, and confirmed – according to what was reported by the Russian Information Agency – that the bombing affected all the specified facilities.
In turn, the French Foreign Ministry condemned what it described as the Russian strikes that deliberately targeted civilian targets, including a hospital in Dnipro, and considered that these actions represent a “flagrant violation of international humanitarian law,” and that they constitute “war crimes.”
Meanwhile, the founder of the Russian military company, “Wagner”, Yevgeny Prigozhin, stated that his forces were assigned to fight on a new front, and said, “The homeland needs to be defended, so we were assigned to fight on a new front,” without further details.
Attacks inside Russia
On the other hand, the governor of the Russian Belgorod region announced that a woman was injured in the Ukrainian bombing of the village of Novaya Tavolganka in the region.
In this regard, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the summoning of senior US diplomats, in protest against US statements regarding the attacks inside Russia.
And CNN quoted John Kirby, a spokesman for the US National Security Council, as saying that the Biden administration confirmed in its talks with Ukraine that it did not support attacks on Russian soil, indicating that it had obtained assurances from the Ukrainians that they would respect the American desire.
Kirby emphasized that the Biden administration does not want to use any American-made equipment to attack Russian territory.
Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart
On the other hand, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the United States is wrong in believing that its presence in the Atlantic Ocean will help it maintain its presence in the face of the threat of a third world war.
Lavrov also discussed with the Chinese envoy for Eurasian affairs, Li Hui, prospects for settling the conflict in Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Lavrov highly appreciated, during the meeting with Li Hui, who is visiting the Russian capital, Beijing’s willingness to play a positive role in resolving the Ukrainian conflict.
Lavrov stressed Russia’s commitment to a diplomatic and political solution to the Ukrainian conflict, but pointed out to the Chinese envoy what he called the serious obstacles set by the Ukrainian side and its sponsors from Western countries to the resumption of peace talks.
On the other hand, Lavrov said that the United States is wrong in believing that its presence in the Atlantic Ocean will help it maintain its presence in the face of the danger of a third world war.
Warning of freezing war
In another context, German Chancellor Olaf Schultz warned Russia against relying on freezing the war on Ukraine along the lands it occupied there.
He said in statements to the German newspaper “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” issued today, Friday, “Russia must understand that it cannot be a matter of making some kind of cold peace, for example by turning the current front line into a new “border” between Russia and Ukraine. “.
“This will not legitimize Putin’s campaign of land theft,” he stressed, adding that “it is more about a just peace, and the precondition for that is the withdrawal of Russian forces.”
F-16 fighters
Regarding the F-16 fighters, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense said that Ukraine needs about 48 F-16 fighters to restore the territories occupied by Russia.
In this regard, two informed sources suggested that the Netherlands would send F-16 fighters to Ukraine after completing the training of Ukrainian pilots on these aircraft.
The two sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, stated that the Dutch government had led discussions with US officials over the past weeks to push US President Joe Biden to agree to deliver the planes to Ukraine.
Bloomberg News quoted one of the sources as saying that the Netherlands and Denmark are leading the allied countries to prepare pilots with the support of Britain and Belgium, and that the Dutch government is already looking, and discussing with its allies, about possible deployment plans for the planes.
The Netherlands currently owns 42 F-16 combat aircraft, including 24 aircraft currently used by the Dutch army, and cannot be sent to Ukraine until mid-2024, and the remaining fighters are to be sold to the American company “Draken International” for air services.
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