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Ukraine
Russia launched two strikes on the Dnieper River – on the same residential area
The head of the regional administration, Alexander Ganja, announced the first attack on the Dnepropetrovsk region at around 3 a.m. local time. According to him, after that, fires broke out in several affected areas. Ganza quickly explained that a four-storey residential building had been damaged – as it later turned out, as a result of the attack, part of the building had collapsed, leaving people under the rubble. Rescuers recovered the bodies of four people from under the rubble. They were infected with it words Ganji, and 27 other people, including two children: a nine-year-old boy who was sent for outpatient treatment and a 17-year-old girl who was hospitalized in moderate condition.
Around 11 a.m. Russian forces He hits Along the Dnieper again. Ganja said that the attack hit the same residential area that was attacked at night. The second strike killed another person and damaged another residence. In total, according to the administration, after two raids on the city, 46 were wounded, five of whom were children. 23 people were taken to hospital, and at least two women were in serious condition.
At night, Russia also attacked other regions of Ukraine – in total, eight regions were attacked, according to Russia Today. words Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Klimenko. In Negin, Chernihiv region, two people died. In the Kharkov region, four local residents were injured, including a one-and-a-half-year-old child.
Vladimir Zelensky in the morning after the first attack on the Dnieper books“The Russians’ tactics have not changed – attack drones, cruise missiles and a large part of ballistic missiles. Most of the targets are ordinary infrastructure in cities.”
Russia
Ukrainian drones attacked the Sverdlovsk region for the first time and hit a high-rise residential building
In Yekaterinburg, a multi-storey residential building on Khakhryakova Street in the city center was damaged as a result of a Ukrainian drone attack. The attack was reported by the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Denis Basler. According to him wordsNine people sought medical assistance, and there were no deaths. One of the victims was taken to hospital.
father Data E1.ru, the main damage affected the 25-30 floors of a high-rise building (this is the Trinity residential complex). According to Basler, 44 apartments were damaged and 81 people were evacuated from the building. There is no threat of the building collapsing.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that 127 Ukrainian drones were intercepted and destroyed over Russian regions during the night. Restrictions were imposed at the airports of Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Perm, Volgograd, Krasnodar and a number of other regions in central and southern Russia.
E1.ru notes that this is the first drone attack in the Sverdlovsk region. Russia’s presidential envoy to the Ural Federal District (and former war veteran who asked Putin to run for a fifth term) Artem Goga said Yekaterinburg “was attacked by the criminal Kiev regime.” “This war crime shows once again that the enemy is unable to achieve success on the battlefield and can therefore only launch despicable attacks on civilian targets. The Ural Mountains are now within reach, so be vigilant,” Chuga wrote.
Blogger Michael Nacki NotesThe target of the Ukrainian drones could be the Vector defense enterprise of Almaz-Antey. “Once again, thanks to Yandex, which made searching for military targets to understand where you could fly 1,000 times easier by blurring all military targets,” he wrote.
War in pictures. House destroyed by Russian raid on the Dnieper
War through the eyes of Medusa readers
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Anna (Bulgaria). On February 24, 2022, our family was planning a big, beautiful anniversary. But Putin’s speech, which I saw almost from the beginning, filled me with such horror that all joys turned to dust, as if by the wave of an evil wizard’s wand. The war ruined my whole life: my children left Russia to see them, and my husband and I (we were no longer young) had to move to another country. Thank God, there is an online job that allows me to make ends meet here somehow.
How, and by what right, was it possible to shatter the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, send some to their deaths, and deprive others of the familiar world of their homeland, of their relatives and friends, and the essential sense of tomorrow? We are very lucky with our friends: almost no one supports the war, everyone is worried and lives in hope. Why? For five years, everything has become worse, and now these obscurantists are in power – human suffering is not enough for them! – They set out to finally abolish the future and trap the country in a stifling coffin of isolation. I’m trying not to completely lose heart, but it doesn’t seem to be going well…