The Russian military operation in Ukraine draws to a close for the second month as the Russian army continues to destroy Ukrainian military infrastructure, amid ongoing fighting to liberate Donbas lands, and British intelligence said Russian forces are advancing from several directions in Donbas towards Kramatorsk, adding: that Russia is seeking to provide air support for its operation in eastern Ukraine.
According to Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk, four buses for the evacuation of civilians left the port of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine.
For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the taking under control of the entire city of Karmina, which turned into a stronghold of Ukrainian nationalists, while noting: We managed to avoid the destruction of the infrastructure of the city of Karmina as a result of coordinated offensive measures. . She added that during the night, artillery shells fired at more than a thousand Ukrainian military facilities.
Control over the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupo
And before that, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov announced that Russian forces would fully control the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, and Kadyrov said in an audio message: “Before lunch or after lunch, Azovstal (plant) will be under the complete control of Russian forces,” reports Reuters. This is due to the fact that Chechen forces are fighting in Ukraine as part of the operations of the Russian army.
Defense of Ukraine: more than 1000 bodies of civilians
The Ukrainian General Staff said that Russian troops were continuing their offensive in the east of the country in order to establish full control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, adding that the Russian army continued to “launch missile strikes and shell military and civilian infrastructure throughout the territory.” Ukraine.” The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said that the Russian army “is focusing the bulk of its efforts on controlling the city of Mariupol and continuing offensive attempts in the area of the Azovstal metallurgical plant.” A Ukrainian official said that more than 1,000 bodies of civilians are now in the morgues of the Kiev region , and Kyiv accuses the Russians of committing a “massacre” against hundreds of civilians during the occupation of the region in March.
In reports from the city of Borodyanka, northwest of Kyiv, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanychyna said that “1,020 bodies of civilians have been found in the morgues of the Kiev region.”
Since the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kiev region at the end of March, hundreds of civilians have been found who are accused by Ukrainian authorities and Western countries of committing “war crimes” against them, accusations that Moscow denies, AFP was quoted as saying.
Blinken: Mariupol is waiting for the worst scenarios
And US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, during his visit to Panama, warned that the Ukrainian city of Mariupol would witness worse scenarios than the one in Bucha, adding that the agreements on humanitarian corridors that were concluded before … collapsed very quickly.
