Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has continued for more than a month. According to the Ukrainian governor, Russian troops have captured the city of Slavutych, where workers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant live.
In Ukraine, intense fighting has resumed on Saturday across the country, Reuters reported.
Reuters says the situation on the eastern border in Mariupol, for example, is critical, according to the city mayor. About 100,000 people have been trapped in the city.
Russia is also continuing to block Kharkiv and Chernihiv.
According to British military intelligence, Russia currently appears to be focusing on airborne attacks and bombings.
According to the military intelligence, the aim is to weaken the will of Ukrainian forces to defend themselves and to avoid losses to their own forces. The intelligence estimates that Russia will continue to crack down on Ukrainian cities, particularly civilians.
Reuters reports that the governor of the Kiev region Oleksandr Pavlyukin according to Russian forces have also taken over the city of Slavutych in northern Ukraine. The city is home to workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
According to the governor, Russian troops have taken over Slavutych Hospital and kidnapped the mayor of the city. Reuters has not been able to verify the information.
However, according to sources interviewed by CNN, Russian troops have lost control of some villages in the area.
Now Russia has said it will change the focus of its attack. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has continued for just over a month.
The Russian army says it is now focusing on Donbass
The Russian army has largely achieved the goals of the first phase of the “special operation” in Ukraine, said the Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoi on Friday.
According to him, the combat capability of the Ukrainian armed forces has been weakened, which allows to focus on the main goal of the operation, which is the liberation of the Donbas region.
According to Rudskoi, the original goal of the operation has not been to attack Ukrainian cities, as Russia has wanted to avoid civilian casualties. Attacks, he said, are still not ruled out.
Since the beginning of the war, however, Russia has been proven to have struck civilian targets in several cities. In Ukraine, for example, more than 70 attacks have taken place against hospitals, ambulances and doctors, the World Health Organization tells the BBC.
On Thursday, it was reported that at least 1,035 civilians had died in Ukraine, according to the UN human rights office, since Russia launched its attack just over a month ago.
According to Rudskoi, the operation was based on Ukraine’s intention to attack Luhansk and Donetsk, where there has been a genocide perpetrated by Ukrainians. However, the EEC, for example, has said that Russia’s claim of genocide is false.
Russia has so far lost 1,351 soldiers crashed and 3,825 wounded, says Russia’s defense ministry. Western estimates suggest the numbers are likely to be higher.
President Niinistö: Russia’s information about the stage of the war should not be relied upon
The president of the Republic Sauli Niinistö Russia’s claims that it would concentrate hostilities only on the Donbass region should be viewed with suspicion.
Niinistö stated on Saturday at Ykkösaam that the city corridor leading to the city of Mariupol or from Donbas to Crimea does not belong to the Donbas region and the “complete destruction” in Mariupol continues.
According to him, Russia’s claims about a new phase of the war and the confinement of the fighting in Donbass may not be true.
– A little doubt is now healthy to keep.
According to Niinistö, Russia’s retreat in the Kiev region seems to be “to some degree or quite a major failure”.
The number of people fleeing to Poland is declining
About 30,500 people crossed the border on Friday, which is 6.4 percent less than on Thursday, the Polish Border Guard said. According to it, a total of more than 2.2 million people have crossed the border from Ukraine to Poland since the start of the war.
Some of these people have already left Poland, but more than a million refugees are still thought to be in the country.
About 300,000 people have passed through Poland to Poland since the start of the war.
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