Day 51 in the war in Ukraine: After the sinking of their Black Sea flagship “Moskva”, retaliatory measures from Russia were generally expected. The Russian military fired on a missile factory in the Kyiv area on Friday and announced further attacks on the capital. On Saturday there were further explosions in Kyiv in the morning hours. Mayor Klitschko appealed to the population not to ignore the authorities’ air alert and to stay in safe places.
Russia also continued its war of aggression in eastern Ukraine. According to Ukrainian sources, the city of Sievjerodonetsk in the Luhansk region was badly damaged. According to the head of the city’s military administration, Olexandr Strjuk, the city is regarding 70 percent destroyed.
Kharkiv also affected
According to Ukrainian sources, at least ten people were killed when the industrial district of the eastern Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv was shelled. A seven-month-old baby was among the victims, the prosecutor’s office for the Kharkiv region announced on Facebook on Friday evening. Ukraine also reported a Russian airstrike on an airfield in the city of Oleksandriya in the Kirovohrad region of central Ukraine. The rescue work was going on, wrote the mayor Serhiy Kuzmenko Facebook. There was initially no information regarding damage or casualties.
2,500 soldiers killed
According to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy are in the Russian war of aggression once morest Ukraine so far 2,500 to 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers was killed.
