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Ukraine denounces the first air attack directly from Belarusian territory within a night bombardment with fifty missiles
The Russian Army has reported the death of at least 80 Polish combatants integrated into the ranks of the Ukrainian Army on the front in the east of the country on a day when Russia has launched fifty cruise missiles, according to the Ukrainian authorities, who have denounced aerial launches of these projectiles even from Belarus, an unprecedented operation since the beginning of the war, according to kyiv.
The attack against the Polish fighters has occurred at the Megatex zinc plant in the town of Kostiantinvka (Donetsk) and all the deceased have been identified by Russia as “mercenaries”, according to the chief spokesman of the Russian Army, General Igor Konashenkov. .
Similarly, the spokesman has also announced the death of 300 soldiers in a missile attack on the town of Mikolaiv, one of the targets of the salvo of almost fifty cruise missiles that Russia has launched against Ukrainian positions in recent hours. .
The total of Ukrainian combatants killed in the bombings of the last 24 hours would amount to about 780, according to the spokesman’s statements, collected by the TASS agency. Neither the Polish government nor the Ukrainian authorities have commented on the timing of these announcements.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian General Staff has announced that US-supplied rocket systems are now operational and hitting targets in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine, the country’s top general said on Saturday.
“The artillerymen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine skillfully hit certain targets – military targets of the enemy on our Ukrainian territory,” Chief of the General Staff of Ukraine Valeri Zaluzhni told Telegram.
On Russian missile strikes, Ukraine’s presidential adviser Mikhailo Podoliak has estimated that some 48 cruise missiles struck Ukraine last night, “exclusively against civilian targets” and accused Russia of “trying to intimidate Ukraine,” according to a message on your Twitter account.
The attacks have even reached the area of Lviv, in the west of the country, as well as Khmelnitski, Yitomir or Chernigov. At least one Ukrainian soldier has died in another impact on Dnipropetrovs, according to Mayor Serhi Sujomlin, according to statements collected by the UNIAN agency.
Attack from Belarus
Ukraine has expressed outrage in particular at the origin of attacks from Belarus, a country closely linked to Russia but self-declared “neutral” in the war”.
In a note collected by Ukrinform, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry has reported that six Tu-22M3 aircraft have launched 12 X-22 cruise missiles from Belarusian airspace, approximately 50-60 kilometers from the state border of Ukraine.
The bombers took off from Shaykovka airport in the Kaluga region of Russia. Then, through the territory of the Kaluga and Smolensk regions, they entered the Belarusian airspace. After launching the missiles, they returned to the airport in Russia, according to the Ukrainian account.
The strikes were launched against the kyiv, Chernigov and Sumy regions, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate, before noting that this is the first case of an airstrike against Ukraine directly from Belarusian territory.
“Today’s bombing is directly related to the Kremlin’s efforts to involve Belarus in the war in Ukraine as a direct participant,” the Main Intelligence Directorate lamented.
clashes
This Saturday it has also become known that groups of Ukrainian fighters are defending a key supply route to the city of Lisichansk, considered to be Ukraine’s last stronghold in the Lugansk region, again according to the latest report by the Ukrainian General Staff.
Hostilities are concentrated near Bachmut, in particular near Volodimirivka and Pokrovske, part of the Bachmut-Lisichansk route.
The latter city is now the target of Russian artillery stationed in Severodonetsk — its sister city, now under Moscow’s control, which lies on the other bank of the Donets River.
Russian forces are also trying to blockade the city from the south, as confirmed by the Ukrainian General Staff, thus confirming information released during the last hours from the Russian side.
