Ukraine: Russian missile fire is increasing throughout the territory
Rescuers remove debris from a hotel destroyed by a Russian military strike in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, July 27, 2022. via REUTERS - STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE OF UKRAI
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Russian missile strikes do not stop on Ukrainian territory.
Russian cruise missiles targeted a military base near kyiv, partially destroying it, the Ukrainian general staff announced on Thursday July 28.
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Around 05:00 a.m. (02:00 UT), the enemy launched an attack by firing six Kalibr cruise missiles at a military unit in Lyutij, Kyiv region
," Oleksiy Gromov, a senior the staff.
According to him, a building at the base was destroyed and two others damaged, while one of the six missiles was shot down by Ukrainian air defense.
These were fired from Crimea, a peninsula annexed in 2014 by Moscow, according to the same source.
“
It's a rough morning.
Once again, we have the terror of missiles
,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky noted on Telegram, assuring that Kiev “
will not surrender and will not give up
”.
Shooting everywhere on Ukrainian territory
Indeed, the missile fire does not stop.
Other multiple rocket launcher bombardments targeted the Cherniguiv region in northern Ukraine, fired from neighboring Belarus, a country allied with Moscow, Gromov added, citing '
casualties
' among the military Ukrainians.
According to him, Russian forces continue to try to advance near Siversk and Bakhmout, in the Donbass, an industrial region that Moscow aims to conquer.
The situation there is “
difficult but completely under control
”, assured Mr. Gromov.
In the occupied Kherson region in the south of the country where Ukrainian forces are fighting a counter-offensive, three villages have been retaken from the Russians in the past two weeks, he added.
Other Ukrainian officials reported Russian shelling in several areas on Thursday.
The mayor of Kharkiv, the country's second city in the northeast, told him of two strikes with S-300 missiles that caused fires.
(
With
AFP
)
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