For the first time in four days, Volodymyr Zhelensky had to allow a few hours of sleep. Unlike SaturdayThe President of Ukraine did not spend the night and dawn recording messages to the Ukrainians and talking to Western leaders. Get their help, Or did not call for a wall to oppose Russian progress. However, on the fourth day of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the fighting continued, more intense than the previous day. Earlier this Sunday, Vladimir Putin praised the special forces for “doing their military duty” heroically by “aiding” pro-Russian separatists in Donbass. Russian President argues for invasion – Prohibited word in Russia – A “peacekeeping” action. Zelensky later responded, “Last night it was hard, there was renewed gunfire, again populated neighborhoods, bombings on civilian infrastructure. There was nothing today that the occupier did not consider a formal target.”
The Russians and the Ukrainians are fighting in the center of Kharkiv
It is the second largest city in the country by its size and economic importance. At around 1am, the city resisted, but three hours later “there was a turning point in the Russian enemy’s light vehicles in the city of Kharkiv,” an official said on Facebook. Fighting continued and about 1.4 million people were called out not to leave their homes.
According to the Russian television channel Dozhd, a heavy shelling took place in the morning. As sporadic gunfire and explosions echoed through the city, the AFP saw light armored vehicles being abandoned or set on fire in the streets. Witnesses said there were Russian vehicles in several neighborhoods. Shortly before 2pm (1pm French time), the governor said Ukrainian forces were still in control of the city and that several Russian soldiers had been captured.
Around Kiev, Russians are focusing on airports
Capital, Under curfew order By Monday morning, it had become a detached camp, with Ukrainian forces setting up numerous anchor points in the city, As mentioned by our Special Envoys, But Russian forces are only occasionally within its walls. A 6-year-old boy was shot dead in the west of the city on Saturday evening, according to a local hospital.
Russian troops are trying to tighten their grip around Kiev, and are targeting cities with airports where troops can land there. On Saturday evening, artillery fired on Vasilkiv, about 30 kilometers southwest, and set fire to the oil terminal. “The enemy wants to destroy everything around him,” Vasilkiv Mayor Natalia Palachinovich said in a video. Photos and videos posted online showed large flames and toxic fumes. The city of Vasilkiv is central to the Russians: it has a large military airport and several fuel tanks.
According to CNN, at dawn on Sunday, two loud explosions burned in the sky southwest of Kiev, one of which appeared 20 km south of the city center. According to surveillance footage, Russian forces also targeted a radioactive waste disposal site near the capital. The state inspector for Ukraine’s nuclear regulation conducted a quick inspection and assured residents living nearby.
Ukrainian forces say they destroyed a unit of 56 tanks on Saturday because of a Russian-targeted airport on Thursday in Hostomal, about 30 kilometers from the capital.
Gen. Mohammad Tushayev, the right-hand man of Chechen President Ramzan Kadir, is said to have been killed. The information is not independently confirmed.
A column of Russian armored vehicles marked with the letter V was spotted at noon on Sunday near the village of Dmitrivka, not far from Pucha. A few kilometers from Kiev, the Ukrainian army is said to have demolished the bridge connecting Pucha with Irfin to reduce the advance of Russian forces.
It is surrounded by two large southern cities
The Russian military says it has cordoned off two major cities in southern Ukraine, Kherson and Berdyansk. “In the last 24 hours, the Russian armed forces have completely blocked the cities of Kherson and Berdyansk with a population of 290,000 and 110,000, respectively,” the Russian Defense Ministry said. “The city of Genesis near Kersen and the Chernobyl airport have also been brought under control,” the Russian ministry said. According to Ukrainian sources, the city of Nova Kakhovka on the outskirts of Kherson is completely under the control of Russian troops. According to Mayor Vladimir Kovalenko, they removed all Ukrainian flags from public buildings.
Is Belarus joining the fight?
The Ukrainian Armed Forces announced on Sunday morning that it had destroyed a ship missile fired by TU-22 from the territory of the Republic of Belarus into Kiev. A few hours later, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko confirmed that missiles had been fired from his territory in the direction of Ukraine, according to the Azerbaijani newspaper Zerkalo. According to Putin’s ally, the missile operations were “on the Ukrainian side, a few kilometers from the Belarusian border, with missile units stationed and ready to strike in a matter of minutes.” “There is not a single Belarusian soldier in Ukraine, not even a cartridge,” the dictator confirmed, because, quite simply, “Russia does not need it.”
The Russian delegation in Belarus says it is ready for talks
Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that a delegation from the Russian Foreign and Defense Ministries and the Kremlin had arrived in Belarus to begin talks with Ukrainians. We are ready to start these talks in Homil, the second largest city in Belarus, located 40 km from the Ukrainian border.
Saturday, the same Peskov Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered Russian troops to slow down, Ukraine should be given time to respond to its negotiating proposal. Kiev denied access to Moscow. In a video released in the Telegram this Sunday, Russian President Volodymyr Gelensky says he is ready to negotiate with Russia, but only “in a country where missiles do not fly.” “We want to talk, we want to end the war,” he said.
Germany, Finland and Ireland close their airspace for Russian flights
“Transport Minister Volker Wissing is in favor of closing German airspace to Russian planes” and “has made arrangements to get everything ready for this,” a spokesman said just before midnight on Saturday. Fearing retaliation, Lufthansa announced a few hours earlier that it would suspend flights to Russia and abroad for a week.
As for Finland, which shares more than 1,300 km of border with Russia’s neighbors, it is “preparing to close the airspace to Russian aviation,” Transport Minister Timo Harraga said in a tweet from Saturday to Sunday night. In Ireland, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense announced the news in view of the “shocking Russian attacks on Ukraine overnight”.
The twins were born in a shelter
A few hours before the birth of a baby girl in Ivano-Frankivsk, on Saturday evening, when anti-aircraft sirens sounded, their mother gave birth to the baby this Sunday at a shelter in Kiev. The health ministry said the number of children born in shelters had risen to six since the three children began the attack.
368,000 Ukrainian refugees in neighboring countries
In Hungary, Romania, and Poland, there is a steady flow of families leaving the war. The High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a tweet that “this number is based on data obtained by national authorities”.
