It is Sergei Markov, Russian political commentator and former adviser to President Vladimir Putin, who asserts that the cruiser Moskva was sunk following being hit by a NATO missile that arrived in Ukraine last January.
A statement that comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday accused Russia of wanting to “destroy” the entire eastern region of Donbass, promising that everything would be done to defend it, starting with the strategic port of Mariupol where the encircled soldiers are called to fight “until the end” and this despite the ultimatum of Russia, which had asked the last Ukrainian soldiers present in Mariupol to lay down their arms on Sunday.
Entrenched in the metallurgical complex of Azovstal, the soldiers would be accompanied by civilians including women, children, babies and the elderly, fearing to be executed as in Boutcha or Irpin.
Olena Kushnir, female doctorSergeant Major of the Army and symbol of resistance this city on the Sea of Azov fell in battle. Last March, following the death of her husband on the front, she appealed for help on social networks.
In Lviv, a large city in western Ukraine usually relatively spared from the fighting, five “powerful” Russian missile strikes hit the cityannounced its mayor and an adviser to the presidency.
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