KYIV — Ukraine mentioned Russia bombed a blood transfusion middle close to the entrance line in a wave of air strikes in a single day whereas Moscow reported that it had shot down a drone heading to the capital on Sunday within the third such assault in every week.
Both international locations have stepped up assaults on one another’s troops, weaponry and infrastructure supporting the struggle as Ukraine seeks to dislodge Russian forces who’ve dug in throughout southern and japanese Ukraine since their invasion final yr.
The Moscow-appointed head of Crimea mentioned the Chonhar bridge to the peninsula, which was annexed from Ukraine by Moscow in 2014, had been broken by a missile strike. Another of the three highway hyperlinks between Crimea and Russian-occupied elements of mainland Ukraine, close to the city of Henichesk, was shelled and a civilian driver wounded, a Moscow-appointed official mentioned.
Traffic was halted on a 3rd bridge, linking Russia to Crimea, after each side mentioned a Ukrainian naval drone filled with explosives struck a Russian gas tanker vessel in a single day from Friday to Saturday, the second such assault in 24 hours.
The assaults are making it more and more onerous to get on and off the Black Sea peninsula, which is of army significance to Moscow in addition to a preferred vacationer vacation spot for Russians.
Inside Russia, Moscow’s Vnukovo airport suspended flights on Sunday, citing unspecified causes outdoors its management. Vnukovo imposed comparable suspensions when Moscow was attacked by drones final week. Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin mentioned a drone had been shot down on Sunday south of the capital.
At least 10 Russian missiles seem to have gotten by means of Ukraine’s air defenses within the in a single day assault, which Ukraine’s air drive mentioned concerned 70 air assault weapons together with cruise and hypersonic missiles in addition to Iranian-made drones.
Local media mentioned a employee at a grain silo had been wounded and a rescuer died throughout a rescue operation.
The assaults adopted what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy mentioned was a bomb assault on a blood transfusion middle within the city of Kupiansk, a railway hub round 16 km (10 miles) from the entrance within the japanese Kharkiv area.
“There are dead and wounded,” he mentioned on his Telegram channel, including that rescue staff have been extinguishing a fireplace on the scene and describing the strike as a “war crime.”
He didn’t say what number of casualties there have been or whether or not they have been army or civilian. Reuters couldn’t instantly confirm the report.
Russia denies intentionally focusing on civilians or army hospitals in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which has killed 1000’s of individuals, uprooted thousands and thousands and destroyed cities.
Russia’s protection ministry mentioned it had performed profitable strikes on Ukrainian air bases within the western Rivne and Khmelnytskyi areas and southern Zaporizhzhia area, with out giving particulars.
Ukraine’s air drive mentioned it destroyed 30 out of 40 cruise missiles and all 27 of the Shahed drones that Russia launched in a single day. It additionally mentioned Russia launched three Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, however didn’t disclose any additional data on them.
It was not clear what occurred to the ten cruise missiles that weren’t shot down.
The deputy governor of the Khmelnytskyi area, Serhiy Tiurin, mentioned a army airfield in Starokostiantyniv was among the many targets. He mentioned many of the missiles have been shot down, however explosions had broken a number of homes, a cultural establishment and the bus station and a fireplace had damaged out at a grain silo.
“Now, it is the Starokostiantyniv airfield that haunts the enemy,” Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat mentioned.
Russia had focused the airfield on the finish of July.
Pipeline leak
Poland halted oil flows by means of one a part of the Druzhba pipeline carrying oil from Russia to Europe after detecting a leak, the most recent hitch to power flows since Russia invaded Ukraine. There was no indication of the trigger and Germany mentioned oil provides have been safe. Poland mentioned it anticipated oil to circulation once more on Tuesday.
Ukraine is 2 months right into a grueling counteroffensive to attempt to push out Russian forces occupying virtually a fifth of its territory within the south and east.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned late final month that whereas Ukraine had recaptured half the territory that Russia had initially seized, the Ukrainian counteroffensive was in its early days and would take form over “several months.”
Another sea drone assault on Russia’s navy base at Novorossiysk broken a warship on Friday, the primary time the Ukrainian navy had projected its energy so removed from its shores.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev urged Moscow would launch extra strikes towards Ukrainian ports in response to Kyiv’s assaults on Russian ships within the Black Sea, and threatened at hand Ukraine “an ecological catastrophe.”
Zelenskiy’s aide Mykhailo Podoliak characterised the in a single day Russian missile assaults as a response to Ukraine’s overtures to Global South international locations which were reluctant to take sides in a battle that has harm the worldwide economic system.
Senior officers from some 40 international locations together with the US, China and India held talks in Saudi Arabia on Saturday and Sunday that Kyiv and its allies hope will result in settlement on key ideas for a peaceable finish to Russia’s struggle in Ukraine.
The two-day assembly is a part of a diplomatic push by Ukraine to construct help past its core Western backers. Zelenskiy’s head of workers, Andriy Yermak, mentioned that they had been very productive discussions however didn’t give particulars.
Russia shouldn’t be attending, although the Kremlin has mentioned it should control the talks. Ukrainian, Russian and worldwide officers say there isn’t a prospect of direct peace talks between Ukraine and Russia at current, with the struggle raging. — Reuters
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