Moscow was again attacked by a Ukrainian drone this Sunday, August 6. The Ukrainian army claims to have shot down 30 of the 40 cruise missiles and all the drones sent by Russia last night. Moreover, the two belligerents again accuse each other of targeting civilian installations,
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The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, announced on August 6 that a drone targeting the Russian capital had been shot down by the air defense forces, after several similar attacks. The Ukrainians, too, announce that they have repelled Russian air attacks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Saturday evening August 5 that a Russian bomb had hit a blood transfusion centre, causing deaths and injuries. This center is located in Kupiansk, a city in the Kharkiv region, in the east of the country. Volodymyr Zelensky describes the attack as ” new war crime “and the Russians” beasts that destroy everything that allows life “.
Use of cluster bombs
The Russians, for their part, accuse the Ukrainian army of having targeted and hit last night, that of Sunday August 6, the University of Donetsk with cluster bombs. According to the mayor of the city, designated by Russia, a building is on fire. None of this information is independently verifiable.
The use of cluster munitions has been banned since the adoption in 2008 of an international treaty. But neither Russia nor Ukraine have signed this convention. Following the example of the United States which announced the delivery of more than 3.5 million cluster bombs in Kyiv. The objective is to allow the Ukrainian army to respond to Russian attacks perpetrated with these same decried weapons.
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