Putin has responded with the greatest force and ferocity possible to the latest humiliations he has suffered from Ukraine. If this weekend the Ukrainians attacked the Kerch bridge in Crimea and partially blew it up, the head of the Kremlin took matters into his own hands and was quick to respond: he appointed General Sergei Surovikin, the ‘Russian Napoleon’, as the new military chief. And the first thing he did on his first day in command was bomb civilians in a dozen cities, including kyiv.
Dnipro was also affected by the bombing. The mayor of the city, Boris Filatovpublished a tweet on Monday whose start was shocking: “Although God is dead, sometimes miracles happen”.
And he continued: “This is a passenger bus. The missile exploded literally five meters away. Everyone is alive.” And he accompanied the message with a photograph showing the sinkhole caused after the attack and the bus in the background.
Хотя Бог умер, но чудеса иногда случаются.
Обычный пассажирский автобус.
Ракета взорвалась буквально в пяти метрах.
Все живы.
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Официальные данные о жертвах ждём от Валентина Михайловича Резниченко. pic.twitter.com/fCs7iVdIDa
— Борис Філатов (@borysfilatov) October 10, 2022
This Tuesday the surprising thing has been another image: the bombed highway, one of the main roads of Dnipro, has been rebuilt in just 24 hours. The pavement looks in practically perfect condition.
“We have worked all night gritting our teeth”, assured the mayor of Dnipro. And he added: “We will restore everything and rebuild everything. But our hatred will last for centuries.”
attacks against people
The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, has assured this Tuesday in a message to the Ukrainian people that the massive attacks in various regions of Ukraine target energy infrastructure and people.
“The morning is hard. We are dealing with terrorists. Dozens of missiles, Iranian ‘Shaheds’. They have two targets,” says Zelensky. The first, he indicates, is power facilities across the country.
“The kyiv region and the Khmelnytskyi region, Lviv and Dnipro, Vinnytsia, the Ivano-Frankivsk region, Zaporizhia, the Sumy region, the Kharkov region, the Zhytomyr region, the Kirovohrad region, the south of the country They want panic and chaos, they want to destroy our energy system,” he says.
The second objective, he adds, “is the people”, and stresses that “A time like this and targets like this have been specially chosen to cause as much damage as possible”.
Zelensky calls on the population to remain in shelters this Tuesday and to always follow safety regulations and assures that thanks to the Ukrainian troops, “everything will be fine.” “And always remember: Ukraine existed before this enemy appeared, and Ukraine will exist after him,” he concludes, in statements collected by Eph.
In a previous message on Telegram, Zelensky called on the population to resist the massive bombings that several cities have suffered.
“The anti-aircraft alarm does not stop throughout Ukraine. There are missile hits. Unfortunately, there are deaths and injuries. I ask you: do not leave the shelters. Take care of yourselves and your loved ones. Let’s hold on and be strong,” Zelensky wrote in Telegram.