2023-07-06 03:23:55
At least three people have been killed in a rocket attack on a block of flats in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. The mayor of the city, Andriy Sadovyj, said this on Telegram on Thursday. A video speaks of “eight injured” and many damaged apartments. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told CNN that he would have liked a “much earlier” start of the counter-offensive in his country.
Zelenskyj told the US and European partners “that we would like to start our counteroffensive earlier and that we need all the weapons and material for it,” he told US broadcaster CNN. Zelenskyi stressed the importance of longer-range ATACMS-type missiles, which Ukraine is asking the US for, and which might attack Russian targets far behind the front lines. The missiles would help Ukraine move faster, Zelenskyy said. He also pointed to shortages in equipping his troops with artillery. “In some directions we can’t even think regarding starting it (the counter-offensive) because we don’t have the right weapons,” Zelenskyy said.
The president of the attacked country made it clear once once more what a recapture of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, would mean for Ukraine. “We cannot imagine Ukraine without Crimea,” said Zelenskyy. “And as long as Crimea is under Russian occupation, it only means one thing: the war isn’t over.”
According to the Ukrainian president, he does not constantly think regarding the danger to his own life that the Russian war of aggression entails. “You can lock yourself in a cage like an animal and chain yourself and keep thinking that you’re regarding to be killed,” Zelenskyy told US broadcaster CNN. But that is not an option for him. If he kept thinking regarding it, he would isolate himself – like Russian President Vladimir Putin, who doesn’t leave his “bunker”. “If I self-isolate, I will no longer understand what is going on around me in the country,” said Zelenskyy. “I would lose connection with society. And if I lose that connection, I would lose society.”
In Lviv, an important infrastructure facility was also damaged in the night rocket attack, according to the governor of the city in western Ukraine, Maksym Kosyzki. However, he did not provide any further details, including whether the attacks were carried out by drones or rockets. He had previously warned, citing the Ukrainian Air Force, that “several” missiles were “on their way to the western regions.
The Ukrainian General Staff reported on Facebook that Ukrainian forces repelled Russian attacks on the village of Bohdanivka to the west of Bakhmut and to the south and north of the devastated town. Russia, in turn, reported that Russian forces had defeated three Ukrainian army units near Bakhmut. The reports might not be independently verified.
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