Russia’s attack on a hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mikolaiv

Russian attacks in Ukraine do not stop. The last one occurred this Monday and was directed against a hospital in the city of Mikolaiv, located in the south of Ukraine. The city’s mayor, Oleksandr Syenkevych, has called the attack on hospital facilities “nothing more than cynical terrorism by Russian troops.”

Syenkevych has described the damage through the Telegram messaging network to inform citizens: “For a while our emergency hospital will not be able to attend to patients”.

“It will be necessary to remove the debris from the trauma center and remove the structures that have been damaged, repair the pillars, frames and windows and remove all the debris and rubble that has been left around,” the message indicates.

“Part of the main hospital building has also been destroyed. It will be necessary to put everything back in order. And in those departments that have survived, we will remove the debris and check if the equipment works or needs to be repaired,” adds the distributed message. on Telegram and from which the British newspaper has been made Guardian.

The notice of the mayor of Mikolaiv to its citizens concludes as follows: “This is an ordinary hospital, which receives its residents every day, including victims of Russian bombing. Therefore, the attack on this medical facility is nothing more than a kind of cynical terrorism by Russian troops”.

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In the images of the attack on the Mikolaiv hospital, firefighters are seen facing the flames and the crater left by the Kremlin bombs after the attack.

Situation in Donbas

On the other hand, the fighting is intensifying in Donbas, which has led kyiv to order the evacuation of the civilian population from the areas of the Donetsk region controlled by the Ukrainian Army.

From the Donetsk regionfacing winter, more than 50,000 children and about 200,000 adults must be evacuated, according to the Ukrainian authorities. To manage their departure, an evacuation cabinet has already been created, as reported by Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereschuk. “Those who have decided to leave must call the administration (…), people will come to pick them up and transport them to the evacuation site,” Vereschuk explained.

The senior official assured that she also understands that there are people who do not want to leave their homes. “The decision is her personal responsibility, but I repeat, there will be no gas, heating and electricity”he warned.

For the pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, the announcement of the evacuation of kyiv is a “publicity step”. “It’s yet another publicity step to promote themselves and show that they care about people,” said Daniil Bezsonov, a representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic.

The leader of the Donetsk separatists, Denis Pushilin, told Russian television that with the evacuation of Donetsk kyiv seeks to “delegitimize” the referendum that the authorities of the people’s republic plan to celebrate after the “liberation” of the entire territory of the region.

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Russia advances

Simultaneously, Russia has continued to attack around Bakhmut, in Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, where it has made little progress, according to British intelligence.

Heavy fighting near Bakhmuta key bastion for the control of the part of the Donetsk region that remains in Ukrainian hands, were also confirmed by the Ukrainian General Staffwho spoke in his daily report of the regrouping of Russian troops in the south.

Russia is possibly redeploying a significant number of soldiers from the north to the south, London agreed. “It is likely that Russia has identified its Zaporizhia front as a vulnerable area that needs reinforcement”point out the British military in statements collected by Eph.

Serhiy Gaidai, governor of the Luhansk region, almost entirely controlled by Russian troops, said in turn that the Russians have been trying to advance towards Bakhmut for almost a month, but the Ukrainian forces maintain the defense of the bastion without allowing the enemy make significant gains.

At once, the Russians made “marginal gains” in the Avdiivka area and attacks on Pisky continued, according to the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

According to the pro-Russian militias, their forces are now trying to encircle Avdiivka, a suburb of the city of Donetsk, where they have advanced about 1.5 kilometers in a few days. The separatists also accused kyiv of “forcibly evacuating” Bakhmut.

More help for Ukraine

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian government has announced that it has received the first half of a €1 billion aid provided by the European Union (EU), as well as Mars II rocket launchers supplied by Germany.

The first Minister, Denis Shmyhalstated through his Telegram account that the amount is already in the accounts of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).

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“We await the arrival of the second tranche tomorrow,” he added, recalling that the aid is part of a larger package, worth 9,000 million euros, to support Ukraine with the financial consequences of the conflict.

On the other hand, the Ukrainian Defense Minister, Oleksei Reznikovannounced that the first self-propelled multiple rocket launchers MARS II, from the manufacturer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, have already been delivered to Ukraine.

“The third brother in the long-range family, Germany’s MLRS MARS II, has arrived in Ukraine,” Reznikov wrote on Twitter. The Ukrainian minister also reported the receipt of four new HIMARS rocket launch systems, sent by the US, a weapon that is changing the balance of forces, according to kyiv.

The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, critical for your part to European politicians who do not trust the victory in kyiv on the battlefield. “They are making a mistake. We can and we will do it. First comes the destruction of the enemy, and then diplomacy,” Danilov wrote on Telegram.