In the 137th day of the conflict, Russian forces continued to shell eastern Ukraine on Sunday (July 10), killing at least 15 people in an explosion at a residential building in Chasiv Yar, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Vladimir Putin claimed that he “He had not yet started serious business in Ukraine“. At the same time, his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensly, accused Moscow of “striking”.intentional, intentional, purely houses, civic purposes, peoplewhich is against international law.
A building was hit in Donbass
On Sunday, July 10, a Russian strike hit a building in the small Donbas town of Chasiv Iar with a population of 12,000 that collapsed. According to Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kirilenko.At least 30 people are under the rubble“, he said on Telegram. The four-story building was hit by a Russian Hurricane missile, Pavlo Kirilenko said.
AFP reporters on the scene after the strike saw the partially collapsed building, rescue workers and an excavator working to clear the area. “I was in the bedroom, I came out and everything started shaking and falling apart. I was saved by the blast wave, which sent me bleeding to the bathroom– testified a resident interviewed by AFP, refusing to give her name.
According to Pavlo Kirilenko, at least 591 civilians have been killed and another 1,548 injured in the Donetsk region since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24. On Friday, he said Moscow was preparing to “new shares“In the East. The Russian army, which announced in early July that it had taken control of the Luhansk region, is now targeting Donetsk to seize the entire Donbass mining basin.
Strikes in the fields to destroy crops, according to Kiev
It has been partially controlled by Moscow-backed separatists since 2014, following Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. “The brutal Russian artillery strikes do not stop for a single day, Sloviansk, Bakhmut, Avdiivka…“Saturday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned, still demanding weapons.”modern and powerful“to protect
Vladimir Zelensky also accused Moscow of striking.intentionally, deliberately, purely houses, civilian objects, people. there are victims, victims, wounded“. Several Ukrainian officials have also accused Russian forces of setting their fields on fire to destroy crops.
Artillery strikes, but almost no ground attacks
Ukrainian military personnel on Saturday, as on the previous day, reported multiple Russian bombings, but almost no ground attacks by Moscow forces. Kiev, for its part, assured that it targeted two “command pointsand Russian warehouses in the Chernobaivka region (south).
In Kharkiv (North-East), the country’s second largest city, Governor Oleg Sinegubov announced the launch of a new Telegram missile that hit “educational institutionand one house and hurt one person. Other Russian strikes were reported particularly near Siversk and Sloviansk (East), as well as in the Nikolaev region (South).
L”AmbassadorIn Moscow, Rodion Mirochnik from the separatist republic of Luhansk said on Telegram on Sunday morning that there was an attack in the Donetsk region.launched from the north against Siversk” and Grigorivka location was “captured after fighting“. According to him, “our troops continue to carry out military operations for the liberation of Serebryanka“Another settlement in the region.
The Russian Defense Ministry accused the Ukrainians of placing people and ammunition in schools and civilian buildings in a number of settlements in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions on Saturday evening.
Wheat harvest campaign by separatists
At the same time, the authorities installed by Russia in Kharkiv noted that “wheat harvesting started in the liberated areas of the regionAccording to the Russian Ria Novosti agency. For weeks, Ukraine has been accusing Russia of stealing its wheat crop from the occupied regions to sell it illegally on the international market. Ukraine’s military headquarters on Sunday, as it had the day before, reported multiple Russian airstrikes but almost no ground attacks by Moscow’s forces.
Kiev, for its part, assured that it targeted two “command pointsand the Russian warehouses in the Chernobaivka region. Ukrainian forces also claimed responsibility for the attack on the Russian base in the occupied Kherson region, without giving further details.
L”AmbassadorIn Moscow, Rodion Mirochnik from the separatist Luhansk Republic said on Telegram on Sunday morning that there was an attack in the Donetsk region.launched from the north against Siverskand that the site of Grigorivka wascaptured after fighting“. “Our troops continue to carry out military operations for the liberation of Serebryanka“Another location in the region, he added.
Turbines for Nord Stream
On the economic front, Canada decided on Saturday, despite sanctions against Russia, to return to Germany the turbines for the Russian Nord Stream gas pipeline, which are currently at Siemens’ facilities near Montreal. Kyiv, however, called for noblackmail the Kremlin“.
The Russian gas group Gazprom turned to this work to justify cutting its Nord Stream supplies to Germany in mid-June.
“Canada will grant Siemens Canada a revocable, time-limited permit to allow refurbished Nordstream 1 turbines to return to Germany, supporting Europe’s ability to obtain reliable and affordable energy.said Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson. The minister accused the Russian President Vladimir Putin of desire.sow division among allies“.
In addition, Canada announced on Saturday its intention to extend its economic sanctions against Russia on industrial production. “The new sanctions will apply to land and pipeline transportation, as well as metals and transportation, computer, electronic and electrical equipment and machinery manufacturing.Foreign Minister Melanie Joly noted.
Source: Le Figaro
