9:28
The city of Mykolaiv targeted by major explosions
Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksander Senkevich said on Telegram that the city was hit by major explosions on Saturday morning.
“There are strong explosions in the city! Stay in the shelters!”, He intimated to his constituents in a message published on Telegram.
The city is located on the outskirts of Odessa, a key town in the export of Ukrainian cereals and already targeted by a deadly strike on Friday.
8:42
British intelligence confirms advance of Russian troops around Lysychansk
In their latest update shared on Twitter, the intelligence services of the British Ministry of Defense confirmed the advance of Russian troops around Lyssytchansk, this city of Donbass subjected to intensive shelling.
“Russian forces continue to make minor advances around Lysychansk, with air and artillery strikes. Ukrainian forces likely continue to block Russian forces in the southeastern suburbs,” the statement read.
Still according to information from the British, the Russian army must nevertheless face a depletion of its ammunition, in particular the most modern. This would force Moscow to use anti-ship missiles in its ground offensives.
7:56
Fighting still rages in Lyssychansk, Donbass
Volodymyr Zelensky admitted that the situation remained “extremely difficult” in Lyssytchansk, a city in the industrial basin of Donbass, in the east, where most of the fighting is concentrated.
“The (Russian) forces have arrived at the gates of Lysychansk. The Ukrainian army is suffering heavy losses,” the Russian Defense Ministry wrote in a statement on Friday.
The Russians “are trying to encircle our army from the south and west” near this city, confirmed Serguiï Gaïdaï, the governor of the Lugansk region.
“It bombs day and night,” testified, in Siversk, regarding twenty kilometers from Lyssytchank, a woman who refused to be named, at the foot of her building.
Lyssytchansk is the last major city not yet in Russian hands in the Lugansk region, one of the two provinces of Donbass, which Moscow intends to fully control.
7:33
After the strike on Odessa, Zelensky denounces Russian “terror”
At least 21 people were killed in overnight strikes by strategic bombers on buildings in the Odessa region of southern Ukraine, kyiv said on Friday.
This is a new act of Russian “terror” according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“I insist: this is deliberate Russian terror and not a few mistakes or an accidental missile strike,” President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced in the evening.
“I call on our partners to provide Ukraine with missile defense systems as soon as possible. Help us save lives,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter, calling Russia a “terrorist state”.
7:31
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