The bombing in Ukraine is resuming and strong explosions have already been felt in Odessa from the early hours of the day. “This morning, sea- and air-guided precision missiles destroyed an oil refinery and 3 fuel storage facilities in the vicinity of Odessa, which supplied fuel to the Ukrainian group of forces near Mykolaiv,” said the spokesman for the ministry of Russian defense, Igor Konashenkov, picked up by Interfax. And Richard Gaisford, correspondent of the British ITV, speaks of at least 5 points of impact. In the images he posted on social media, huge columns of black smoke are seen obscuring the sky. But, according to the officer of the “South” operational command Vladislav Nazarov, quoted by UNIAN, there are no casualties. Deputy of Odessa City Council Petro Obukhov
And fights are also underway in the Donbass region, which has always been at the center of Moscow’s claims. But here, at least according to the Ukrainian military leaders who communicate via Fb, the soldiers of Kiev would have prevailed. “On the territory of Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts, in Donbass, Ukraine repelled 6 enemy attacks, destroyed 4 tanks, 6 units of armored vehicles and 7 units of enemy vehicles.”
Even today a humanitarian corridor would have opened to evacuate Mariupol, announces the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, quoted by Ukrinform. “We continue to work on the evacuation of people along the humanitarian corridor from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhia. Currently, there are 17 buses near Berdyansk, 10 for the evacuation of Mariupol from Berdyansk. If the buses do not pass through the city, we ask the people. to go to the checkpoint at the entrance to the city. Seven buses – he explains – will try to pass closer to Mariupol accompanied by the International Committee of the Red Cross “.
No good news, however, from the diplomatic front. With Moscow and Kiev that seem more anchored than ever to their respective starting positions. “The draft agreement is not ready to be presented at a summit meeting. I repeat again and again: Russia’s position on Crimea and Donbas remains unchanged”, reiterates the Russian chief negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, echoed by the international media. While yesterday the chief Ukrainian negotiator, David Arakhamia, told the media that Russia had “given an official response to all positions” and that “they accept the Ukrainian position, except for the question of Crimea”. “The Italian government – assures the foreign minister, Luigi Di Maio – is willing to contribute to the peace process. As already stated by Draghi, the
Pending new developments, the death toll from the war continues to rise. According to the Ukrainian Attorney General’s office, which updates that of minors on Telegram, the number of children affected by the war has risen to “416, of which 158 killed and 258 wounded. But” these figures are not definitive, since they are ongoing identification in temporarily occupied and liberated territories. In particular, in the city of Mariupol, in some areas of the Kiev, Chernihiv and Lugansk regions “, says the prosecutor.
