This article was reprinted with permission after being published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
More than 20 people were hurt and several private buildings were damaged by a Russian aircraft attack on Ukrainian cities Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Kramatorsk later on April 8.
The over Russian invasion, which injured at least 15 people and left almost all of them in critical condition, was the “most suffered” by Dnipro, according to Serhiy Lysak, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk area.
” Citizens have cuts, shrapnel wounds, scars, and head traumas,” the statement reads. Some people needed assistance because of their extreme stress, Lysak said.
Lysak added that nearly two hundred vehicles and 15 private residences were damaged in the assault. He claimed that a number of business services, managerial buildings, and the city’s system had been damaged.
The Russian drones also struck Kharkiv, the second-largest town in Ukraine, and Kramatorsk, the eastern area.
At least two people were hurt in Kharkiv, according to local government, in addition to the more than 20 bombs that were heard in Kharkiv.
In Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk place, five people were hurt.
According to Vadym Filashkin, mind of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration,” an 11-year-old woman, her 34-year-old family, and a 55-year-old mother were hurt in the attack.”
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, pleaded with the lovers to help” keep as many people as possible.”
Moscow ignores any politics because they believe they have the right to do so, Zelenskyy said on X, adding that “war does not worsen from talks and statements, and it does not worsen from politics.”
32 out of 55 drones launched by Russia were shot down by the Ukrainian Air Force, according to the agency, with eight more” never reaching their goals.”
Ukraine Reclaims” Effective Activities.”
However, the Russian Defense Ministry announced in a blog on the Telegram that 29 drones were destroyed by its air protection devices over, including 29 over the southern Rostov area.
Russian aviation authority Rosaviatsia reported that many airports in the south of Russia were shut down earlier on April 9 to assure air safety.
Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskiy, the country’s top military commander, claimed in a report that Kyiv had recently carried out” successful” strikes on Russian air bases.
” Our successful behavior a few days ago destroyed a Tu-22M3 long-range bomb. Our aircraft had just landed on top of it, he told Ukrainian internet store LB. prc.
According to Syrskiy, such a plane could cost as much as$ 100 million.
Russian troops are now pursuing three different goals in their bid to get the important area of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk area, according to the most recent report from the US-based Institute for the Study of War ( ISW).
According to the report,” the scenario immediately south and southwest of Pokrovsk continues to be very powerful in the face of more aggressive Russian offensive operations.”
The ISW more highlighted how Ukrainian drone operations and localized counterattacks continue to impede Moscow’s advances in the area as Russian forces have been attempting to capture the capital for the past 13 months.
A product of Ukrainian drone planes stationed in Pokrovsk earlier this month announced to the Ukrainian Service that they have become a highly valuable target for Russian troops.
Vladimir Putin was” trying to buy time and make for a flower offensive,” Zelenskyy stated on March 26.
He claimed that Russia was putting together a fresh rude, especially in the Sumy and Kharkiv areas.
Syrskiy claimed that the rude has now begun.
He told LB,” We are seeing an nearly double of the number of enemy offensives in all key directions.” node.
According to the ISW report, Russian forces lately advanced in the Kursk region of Russia, some of which are under the control of Kyiv, and carried out a raid in the nearby Sumy region of Ukraine, but “probably did not establish new positions.”
However, Syrskiy once more praised Ukraine’s surprise surprise invasion of Kursk in August, claiming that it was” critical” to the defense of the Kharkiv region.
Later on April 7, Zelenskyy formally acknowledged for the first time that Russian troops are now taking up new positions in Russia, this day in the Belgorod region.
Our primary goal is the same as it is to protect our property and our populations in the Sumy and Kharkiv areas, he said, adding that we are continuing to conduct active operations in the enemy’s frontier regions. This is completely justified.
