Focused bombardment of Mikolaiu on the access road to Odessa… First attack on the eastern industrial city of Dnipro
Is the siege of Kiiu imminent? Outer Convoy Movement
DNIPRO (Archyde.com = Yonhap News), Ukrainian rescue workers search and rescue the remains of buildings destroyed by a Russian airstrike in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on November 11, 2011. On the 16th day following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian military airstrikes on civilian facilities, including a kindergarten in Dnipro, killed at least one person, local rescue authorities said. [제3자 제공. 재판매 및 DB 금지]. 2022.3.11 leekm@yna.co.kr
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Eui-rae = On the 11th (local time), the 16th day of the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army expanded its attack to a city in western Ukraine far away from the front line.
Ukraine’s largest port city, Odessa, was also bombarded with intensive bombardment. At the same time, a scene was captured of the rearrangement of the 64km long transport procession that had stopped on the way to Kiev (Kyiv).
The meeting between Russia and Ukraine’s foreign ministers the day before ended without any conclusions, but Russian President Vladimir Putin said “positive progress” had been made, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said “a strategic turning point has been reached”.
MARIUPOL (AP Photo) – A man pulls a bicycle through the streets of Mariupol, a port city in southern Ukraine, devastated by Russian bombardment on the 10th (local time). Russia and Ukraine have agreed on several occasions to open a humanitarian channel for the evacuation of Mariupol residents, but the evacuation has not been carried out as the fighting has not stopped. 2022.3.11 leekm@yna.co.kr
◇ Intensive shelling of Mikolaiu on the entrance to Odessa… attack on western cities
According to reports by the Associated Press and CNN broadcasts, the Russian army conducted a concentrated bombardment on the evening of the evening near the city of Mykolayu, the capital of Mykolayuzh in southern Ukraine.
Mykolaikov, on the Black Sea coast, is the access road to Odessa, Ukraine’s largest port city. If it collapses, the Russian army can launch an attack on Odessa by land.
Vitali Kim, a third-generation Goryeo-in and governor of the Mykolai universe, showed the fires in the area in a video posted on Telegram that day, according to CNN. there,” he said.
He then criticized the bombardment as an indiscriminate bombardment of civilians such as cafes and apartments.
Russian forces attacked military airfields in Ivano-Frankiusk in southwestern Ukraine and Lutsk in northwestern Ukraine, the mayor of Lutsk said on Tuesday, killing four Ukrainian soldiers. .
The British Ministry of Defense also said Russian air and missile units had attacked the area. He said Russian tactical aircraft were relying on ammunition without guidance.
Dnipro, a major industrial city in eastern Ukraine and the fourth most populous city, was also attacked.
“There were three air strikes in Dnipro that day, and one kindergarten, one apartment building, and a two-story shoe factory were hit, killing one person,” the local rescue authorities said in a statement.
This is the first time Dnipro has been attacked, AFP said.
Russian forces also attacked southern Melitopol and kidnapped the mayor, Ukraine’s foreign ministry said.
(Berestianka AFP = Yonhap News) A satellite image of a Russian military supply truck procession, presumed to be equipped with multiple rocket guns, passing through a road near Berestianka, the capital of Ukraine, on the 9th (local time). [맥사 테크놀로지 제공. 마케팅 및 광고 사용 금지] 2022.3.11 jsmoon@yna.co.kr
◇ Relocation of large transport procession outside Kiiu… Attack imminent?
In the midst of this, a scene was captured of the Russian military dispersing and relocating a large-scale 64km-long transport procession that had been stopped outside Kiiu for more than a week.
According to U.S. commercial satellite company Maxa Technologies, satellite imagery analysis showed that a large-scale transport procession consisting of towed artillery, self-propelled artillery, tanks and transport trucks was scattered to nearby villages and forests. Russian armored forces were also seen moving around Antonov Airport, northwest of Kiiu.
Analysis of this as a signal that the Russian army’s siege of Kiiu is imminent and analysis of whether it is to evacuate to a safe place so that the convoy is not attacked are mixed, the Associated Press reported.
The British Ministry of Defense said Russia is trying to reorganize its forces as it prepares for operation once morest Kiiu.
Mathieu Bullegg, a researcher at Chatham House in London, said the relocation was intended for a prolonged siege rather than an immediate raid on Kiiu.
He said, “This will be a very long war of attrition,” he said.
A senior US Department of Defense official, on the other hand, told the Associated Press that the convoys had made no progress at all, and that the relocation was meant to hide and protect vehicles and did not appear to be advancing towards Kiiu.
He said, however, that troops from the northeast had moved near Kiiwu, 20 to 30 kilometers east of the city.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a speech in the background of a street in Kiiu in a video released on Facebook by the Office of the President of Ukraine on the followingnoon of the 11th (AP). 2022.3.12 photo@yna.co.kr
◇ Putin “progress on talks”… Zelensky: “A strategic turning point has been reached”
Putin, meanwhile, did not provide details regarding the high-level talks between Russia and Ukraine that took place the day before, but said that “there was definitely positive progress.”
The Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers met in Antalya, Turkey on the 10th, but ended without a breakthrough.
President Zelensky also said in a video message that “a strategic turning point has been reached” without stating specific details.
“I can’t say how many days it will take to free our land, but I can say we will do it,” he explained.
Ukrainian authorities are also working to create 12 humanitarian channels and distribute food, medicine and basic necessities throughout the country.
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