Russia retaliated for the invasion of Ukraine with massive bombings across the country [VIDEO]

On Thursday, Russia retaliated for the alleged Ukrainian invasion of Russian territory with a new massive bombardment that hit military and civilian targets throughout Ukraine, during which the Russian army actively used hypersonic weapons.

“In response to the terrorist actions organized by the Kiev regime on March 2 in the Bryansk region, the Russian army launched a massive offensive in retaliation,” Defense Ministry spokesman General Igor Konashenkov said in his daily report.

Then adviser to the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak denied the involvement of Kyiv in the alleged sabotage.

From East to West of Ukraine

According to official Ukrainian sources, at least nine people were killed in a massive shelling launched last night by the Ukrainian Army. Russia against a dozen regions of a neighboring country.

The shelling killed at least five people in the Lviv region (west), where the rocket hit a residential area, and another civilian in Dnepropetrovsk (southeast).

In the south of the Kherson region, partly controlled by the Russians, three people were killed as a result of shelling, two at a public transport stop and another in a store.

The attack also reached the capital, Kyiv, where two people were injured and infrastructure, city property and apartment buildings were damaged.

The Russians also hit other major cities in the country, such as Kharkov, where eleven missiles left the country’s most important city in the east. Ukraine without electricity, water and heating; Nikolaev (south) and Odessa (Black Sea).

hypersonic weapons

In total, according to the people of Kiev, the Russian army fired 81 missiles from both aircraft and ships located in the Black, Azov and Caspian Seas.

Konashenkov specified that Moscow used long-range precision weapons from the air, which hit military infrastructure and industry, as well as the civilian energy network.

For this aviation Russia used the “Dagger”, which was confirmed in Kyiv, estimating the number of hypersonic missiles of this class launched across the territory of Ukraine at six.

Kinzhal (Russian for Kinzhal) are air-launched missiles with a range of more than 2,000 kilometers and a speed ten times the speed of sound.

This high-precision hypersonic missile, which Ukrainian anti-aircraft batteries cannot shoot down, can carry both nuclear warheads and conventional charges.

Nuclear power plant warning

Due to attacks from RussiaThe Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye, the largest in Europe, was completely isolated for several hours, which forced it to turn on about twenty diesel generators, although it was connected to the mains a few hours later.

The Ukrainian state company Energoatom assured that the international community should do everything possible so that “the occupying forces leave the facilities and return them to full control over Ukraine”.

The demilitarization of the territory was supported on Wednesday by UN Secretary General António Guterres during his visit to Kyiv, and today was rejected by the Minister of Foreign Affairs RussiaSergei Lavrov, who accused the Portuguese diplomat of lack of neutrality.

In this regard, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has warned that a “dice game” is being played with the safety of the plant, which has been put into emergency mode for the sixth time in the past year, and that “one day our luck will run out.”

“What are we doing? How can we sit in this room this morning and let this happen? This cannot go on,” IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi warned during a speech before the IAEA Board of Governors. UN.

Bahmut, not a step back

Meanwhile, the fierce battle for control of Bakhmut continues. Should there be any doubt, Ukrainian army commander Oleksandr Syrsky assured that it was becoming increasingly important for Kiev to defend this bastion, although NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg denied that falling into Russian hands could mark a turning point in the war.

“Each day of the defense of the city allows us to gain time for the preparation of reserves and future offensive operations. At the same time, in the struggle for this fortress, the enemy loses the most prepared and combat-ready part of his army: Wagner’s assault detachments. “Syrsky said in a statement.

According to Western intelligence estimates, during the assault on Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, Wagner’s mercenaries, who controlled half of the city, would have lost from 20 to 30 thousand people.

According to Russian military bloggers, the oil company Gazprom Neft is creating its own volunteer unit, where the salary will be higher than that of Wagner, whose founder Sergei Prigozhin is at odds with the Defense Ministry and the General Staff. (As reported by EFE)

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