The continuous shelling of Donetsk by the Russian army continues after four and a half months war in Ukrainewhile the US pledged yesterday Friday to offer new military aid to Kyiv.
“The entire front line is being shelled non-stop,” Donetsk governor Pavlo Kirilenko said last night. “They don’t stop bombing Donetsk (…) Bakhmut is being bombarded, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk are being bombarded day and night,” he wrote on Telegram.
Earlier yesterday, Kirilenko said that six people had been killed and 21 wounded in the past 24 hours from shelling in the area.
According to him, the Russian army “has begun to regroup or rather to reshape its groups and is preparing for new operations in Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Bakhmut.”
In the region of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, four people were killed and nine were injured in the previous 24 hours, Governor Oleg Sinegubov said.
In the meantime, the vice-president of the Ukrainian government, Irina Vereshchuk, called them civilians located in the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia, which have been occupied by the Russians, to be removed.
“Please, leave. Our army will begin the recapture of these areas. Our determination is absolute, and it will be difficult to open humanitarian corridors later,” Vereschuk stressed.
For his part, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday he visited areas on and near the front, as well as a hospital in Dnipro where wounded soldiers are being treated. He also toured the defense lines in Dnipropetrovsk and Kryvyi Rih.
A senior Pentagon official also said that new $400m in US military aid to Ukraine, which includes four Himars multiple rocket launcher systems and 155mm howitzers, will improve the Ukrainian military’s ability to target weapons caches and lines resupply of the Russians.
In total, since the beginning of the Russian invasion, Washington has provided $6.9 billion in military aid to Kyiv, APE-MPE reports, citing AFP and Reuters.
“Crop Destruction”
Bombing the Donetsk region, the Moscow it is trying to occupy the entire Donbass valley, which is its strategic goal.
According to the regional governor, the Russian army has started to set fire to the crops: “There are huge fires in the fields which the enemy deliberately causes. They try to destroy the crops by any means. They bomb agricultural machinery, harvesters,” he complained.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a country considered the world’s breadbasket, has caused food prices to skyrocket and contributed to rising inflation worldwide.
Yesterday the foreign ministers of the Group of 20 (G20) who met in Indonesia “expressed their deep concern about the humanitarian impact of the war” in Ukraine, as stated by the head of Indonesian diplomacy, Retno Marsudi.
The effects of the war “are felt worldwide in food, energy and budgets”, he underlined. “And as always poor and developing countries are hit hardest.”
Although the G20 did not unanimously condemn the Russian invasion, Westerners appreciated that they managed to widen the front against Russia and clearly lay on it the responsibility for the war and the food and energy crisis it caused.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov walked out mid-day from the meeting, which was also attended by his US counterpart Anthony Blinken.
It was the first time since the start of the war in February that the two men had met in the same meeting, but Blinken refused to meet separately with Lavrov. The Russian minister replied that Moscow is not running behind Washington asking for talks.
Source: News Beast
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