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    Home»News»World News»Russia Renews Strikes On Ukraine’s Big Cities, Bears Down On Mariupol

    Russia Renews Strikes On Ukraine’s Big Cities, Bears Down On Mariupol

    World News By Ifeanyi N.Apr 17, 2022Updated:Apr 17, 2022No Comments6 Mins Read
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    Russian forces renewed missile strikes on Kyiv and intensified shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, in an apparent strategy to hobble Ukraine’s defences in preparation for what is expected to be a full-scale Russian assault in the east.

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    These attacks and others scattered across the country were an explosive reminder to Ukrainians and their Western supporters that the whole country remains under threat.

    With the port city of Mariupol under siege, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia is deliberately trying to destroy everyone who is there. He said Ukraine needs more heavy weapons from the West immediately to have any chance of saving the city.

    Each day brings new discoveries of civilian victims of an invasion that has shattered European security. In the towns and villages just outside Kyiv, authorities have reported finding the bodies of more than 900 civilians, most shot dead, since Russian troops retreated two weeks ago.

    After the humiliating loss of the flagship of its Black Sea Fleet, Russia’s military command vowed to step up missile strikes on the capital. The Russians said they hit an armoured vehicle plant on Saturday, a day after targeting a missile plant.

    Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko advised residents who fled the city earlier in the war not to return.

    We’re not ruling out further strikes on the capital, he said. If you have the opportunity to stay a little bit longer in the cities where it’s safer, do it.

    The mayor said Saturday’s strike killed one person and wounded several. It was not immediately clear from the ground what was hit in the strike on Kyiv’s Darnytskyi district. The sprawling area on the southeastern edge of the capital contains a mixture of Soviet-style apartment blocks, newer shopping centers and big-box retail outlets, industrial areas and railyards.

    Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said an armoured vehicle plant was targeted. He didn’t specify where the factory was located, but there is one in the Darnytskyi district.

    He said the plant was among multiple Ukrainian military sites hit with air-launched high-precision long-range weapons.

    The Russian missiles hit the city just as residents were emerging for walks, foreign embassies planned to reopen and other tentative signs of the city’s prewar life started resurfacing, following the failure of Russian troops to capture Kyiv and their withdrawal.

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    Kyiv was one of many targets Saturday. The Ukrainian president’s office reported missile strikes and shelling over the past 24 hours in eight regions across the country.

    The governor of the Lviv region in western Ukraine, which has been only sporadically touched by the war’s violence, reported airstrikes on the region by Russian Su-35 aircraft that took off from neighboring Belarus.

    In Kharkiv in the northeast, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said three people were killed and 34 wounded on Saturday. One explosion believed to have been caused by a missile sent rescue workers scrambling near an outdoor market. They said one person was killed and at least 18 wounded.

    All the windows, all the furniture, all destroyed. And the door, too, recounted stunned resident Valentina Ulianova.

    The day before, rockets hit a residential area of Kharkiv, killing a 15-year-old boy, an infant and at least eight other people, officials said.

    Nate Mook, a member of the World Central Kitchen NGO run by celebrity chef Jos Andrs, said in a tweet that four workers in Kharkiv were wounded by a strike. Andrs tweeted that staff members were unnerved but safe.

    Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who met with Vladimir Putin this past week in Moscow – the first European leader to do so since the invasion began Feb. 24 – said the Russian president is in his own war logic on Ukraine.

    In an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, Nehammer said he thinks Putin believes he is winning the war and we have to look in his eyes and we have to confront him with that, what we see in Ukraine.”

    Nehammer said he confronted Putin with what he saw during a visit to the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, where more than 350 bodies have been found along with evidence of killings and torture under Russian occupation, and it was not a friendly conversation.

    Zelenskyy said in an interview with Ukrainian journalists that the continuing siege of Mariupol, which has come at a horrific cost to trapped and starving civilians, could scuttle attempts to negotiate an end to the war.

    The destruction of all our guys in Mariupol – what they are doing now – can put an end to any format of negotiations, he said.

    Later, in his nightly video address to the nation, Zelenskyy said Ukraine needs more support from the West to have a chance at saving Mariupol.

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    Either our partners give Ukraine all of the necessary heavy weapons, the planes, and without exaggeration immediately, so we can reduce the pressure of the occupiers on Mariupol and break the blockade, he said, or we do so through negotiations, in which the role of our partners should be decisive.

    Konashenkov, the Russian Defence Ministry spokesman, said Saturday that Ukrainian forces had been driven out of most of the city and remained only in the huge Azovstal steel mill.

    Russian Maj Gen Vladimir Frolov, whose troops have been among those besieging Mariupol, was buried Saturday in St Petersburg after dying in battle, Gov Alexander Beglov said. Ukraine has said several Russian generals and dozens of other high-ranking officers have been killed in the war.

    Capturing Mariupol would allow Russian forces in the south, which came up through the annexed Crimean Peninsula, to fully link up with troops in the Donbas region, Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland.

    Zelenskyy estimated that 2,500 to 3,000 Ukrainian troops have died in the war, and about 10,000 have been wounded. The office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general said Saturday that at least 200 children have been killed, and more than 360 wounded.

    Russian forces also have taken captive some 700 Ukrainian troops and more than 1,000 civilians, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Saturday. Ukraine holds about the same number of Russian troops as prisoners and intends to arrange a swap but is demanding the release of civilians without any conditions, she said.

    Russia’s warning of stepped-up attacks on Kyiv came after it accused Ukraine on Thursday of wounding seven people and damaging about 100 residential buildings with airstrikes in Bryansk, a region bordering Ukraine. Ukrainian officials have not confirmed hitting targets in Russia.

    In the Vatican, Pope Francis on Saturday invoked gestures of peace in these days marked by the horror of war in an Easter vigil homily at St Peter’s Basilica that was attended by the mayor of the occupied Ukrainian city of Melitopol and three members of Ukraine’s parliament. Francis did not refer directly to Russia’s invasion but has called, apparently in vain, for an Easter truce to reach a negotiated peace.

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