On Friday, the Russian army continued to strike the positions of the Ukrainian forces and military infrastructure, and to liberate the Donbass lands, within His military operation, which was launched on the 24th of last FebruaryKyiv continues to receive material support and military equipment in the face of the Russian bear.
In the latest field developments, 18 people were killed, and 30 others were injured, including children, in a Russian air raid targeting an apartment building in the Odessa region in southern Ukraineaccording to a local official announced Friday.
A spokesman for the military administration in the Odessa region, Sergey Prachuk, said that the missile was launched by a “strategic aircraft” from the sky over the Black Sea. According to the spokesman, “the missile hit a nine-storey apartment building, located in the Belgorod-Dniester region,” regarding 80 km south of Odessa.
British intelligence said that fierce fighting was taking place over the control of the Lyschansk oil refinery in Donbass, noting that Kyiv’s use of anti-ship missiles led to Russia’s withdrawal from Snake Island.
For his part, the Ukrainian president admitted that the situation in Donbass is still very difficult, noting that Russian forces used their entire arsenal to strike the Lugansk and Donetsk regions. He also stressed that the withdrawal of Russian forces from the Ukrainian Snake Island in the Black Sea does not guarantee the security of Ukraine.
Simultaneously, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that Russian forces and units of the Luhansk forces launched a large-scale attack on the city of Severonetsk following seizing a number of areas in Lugansk and Donetsk.
On Thursday, the Ukrainian military announced that Russian equipment on Snake Island had been destroyed.
Before that, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that Russian forces had left Snake Island in the Black Sea off Odessa, as a goodwill gesture to facilitate the transportation of Ukrainian grain abroad. She added that the withdrawal from Snake Island “proves that we are not hindering the international efforts to export Ukrainian grains. It is Ukraine’s role to clear the coasts of the Black Sea of mines.”
The Russian Defense added that Russian missiles destroyed the Ukrainian command center near Dnipro, while confirming that the total number of Ukrainian soldiers who had been captured or surrendered was more than 6000.