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The Russian
army
has attacked nine regions of
Ukraine
on Thursday, mostly military infrastructure, airports and airfields.
"The geography of the attacks is as follows:
Ivano-Frankivsk
,
Khmelnitsky
,
Chernigov
,
Kharkov
,
Kiev
,
Odessa
,
Nikolaev
,
Kherson
,
Kramatorsk
and along the line of separation of forces" in
Donbas
, the army reported in a statement.
release.
Of those Russian targets, the only one in
Donbas
is the city of
Kramatorsk
, considered the Ukrainian military base in the
Donetsk
region .
In addition,
Odessa
is the most important base of the Ukrainian
Black Sea
fleet and
Kherson
is the region bordering the Ukrainian peninsula of
Crimea
.
Russian President Vladimir Putin "has practically declared
war on Ukraine
. There were no reasons for it, the reasons are false," says the official note.
"As for the attacks: the Russian Armed Forces have begun to massively bomb cities, mainly military infrastructure, airports and airfields," he stresses.
There have been "small enemy offensives" in the
Kharkov
,
Chernihiv
and
Volyn
regions , but "they have been repelled", he adds.
He also points out that the Ukrainian president,
Volodymyr Zelensky
, has issued the corresponding orders to counter Russian attacks and has imposed martial law.
"Today
Russia
has begun the invasion of
Ukraine
.
Putin
has declared war on
Ukraine
and the entire democratic world. He wants to destroy my state,"
Zelensky
said in his latest intervention on
, in which he stressed that the Ukrainian army has already resisted "the first blow" and is responding "with dignity".
"We know the strength of the
Ukrainian
Armed Forces . We are brave. We are invincible. We are Ukrainians," he said.
The Ukrainian Army has a quarter of a million men, to which must be added hundreds of thousands of reservists, volunteer and paramilitary groups, and members of territorial defense units.
By contrast, in 2014, when war broke out in
Donbas
,
Ukraine
had only 140,000 men and a few thousand reservists.
Currently, the Russian army has more than a million men and tens of thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, as well as thousands of artillery pieces, planes and helicopters, not counting its nuclear and hypersonic arsenal.
Before the Russian attack,
Kiev
estimated that there were 150,000 Russian soldiers deployed on the Ukrainian border between land, sea and air troops.
In announcing the recognition of the self-proclaimed breakaway republics of
Donetsk
and
Lugansk
,
Putin
assured that the current Ukrainian state includes "historically Russian areas".
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