In Ukraine, the Russian army continues to put pressure on Kharkiv, the country’s second city, where on Saturday afternoon, a bombing left 3 civilians dead and 47 injured. North of Kharkiv, the Russians, who opened a new front in May, are no longer progressing, neutralized by the Ukrainian defense. And faced with the new use by the Ukrainians of their artillery on enemy territory, the Russian army is adapting its modus operandi to make life impossible for the people of Kharkiv.
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Saturday afternoon, writes our correspondent in Ukraine, Stéphane Siohan, three guided glide bombs fired by Russian fighter jets fell in the central administrative district of Kharkiv, causing devastation. Residents walking in the street and civilian personnel found themselves buried under the rubble; the toll is once again very heavy with three deaths and 47 injured. However, it must be understood that, paradoxically, the bombings on Kharkiv have decreased since the end of May, from the moment the West gave the green light to the Ukrainians to use their long-range missiles, notably the Himars Americans, to strike enemy military concentrations on Russian territory.
Ukraine is still waiting for its air armada
From then on, several batteries of S-300 and S-400 type missiles in the Russian region of Belgorod were pulverized by Ukrainian surgical strikes, and mechanically, the missile strikes on Kharkiv ceased. However, this does not mean the end of the ordeal for the inhabitants of Ukraine’s second city. Because while the forces of kyiv inflict heavy losses on the Russian attackers around Vovchansk, the Russian fighters continue to drop numerous FABs, these famous gliding bombs, heavy from half a ton to one and a half tons, which continue to fall. strike down on Kharkiv. To counter them, there is only one effective weapon: a Ukrainian armada of fighter planes, if possible F-16s, to prevent Russian Tu-22M3 or Su-34 aircraft. to approach Ukraine.
Missiles on Crimea
In Crimea, writes AFP, a Ukrainian missile attack left two dead, including a two-year-old child, and 22 injured, Sunday June 23, in Sevastopol in Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula annexed in 2014 by the Russia, announced the governor installed by Moscow. “ According to preliminary information, the attack by the Ukrainian army on Sevastopol killed two civilians, including a two-year-old child » and left 22 injured, Mikhail Razvojaïev wrote on Telegram. Furthermore, Ukrainian drone attacks also left one dead and three injured in a locality in the Russian region of Belgorod, very close to the Ukrainian border, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Sunday.
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