The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has claimed that air alerts rang out across almost all of Ukraine Tuesday night, indicating that the Russian army has continued to remain very consistent in pounding the country.
He made this known even as he called again for a modern, effective air-defence system.
Attacks, according to him, occurred in the western Ukrainian Khmelnytskyi region, the central Dnipropetrovsk region, the border region of Sumy, and the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv and its surroundings.
According to the governor of Luhansk, a lot of equipment is being delivered into the Donetsk region of Ukraine where Russian troops are involved in fierce fighting and making their way.
According to local authorities, Tuesday’s attack by Russian forces on a market and residential area in Sloviansk, in the Donetsk region, resulted in at least two fatalities and seven injuries.
The governor of Donetsk has urged some 350,000 citizens to evacuate the region to help Ukraine’s forces fight better with Russian troops.
An air alert rang out across almost all of Ukraine on Tuesday night, Zelenskyy has said, as he again called for a modern modern anti-missile system.
‘Before that, there has been no air alert in the capital and in some regions for some time, and some people even felt particularly anxious because of such unusual silence. They were overthinking, dreading, looking for some kind of explanation – as if the occupiers were preparing for something…,’ he said in his nighttime address.
‘You should not look for logic in the actions of terrorists. The Russian army does not take any breaks. It has one task – to take people’s lives, to intimidate people – so that even a few days without an air alarm already feel like part of the terror. And this evening, Kyiv and again almost the whole of Ukraine heard the air alarm,’ he added.
Zelenskyy said there were raids in the Khmelnytskyi region of western Ukraine, the central region of Dnipropetrovsk, the border region of Sumy, and the Black Sea port city of Mykolaiv and its region. ‘Some of the missiles were shot down by our air defence forces. And we have not reduced and will not reduce our diplomatic activity for a single day to obtain modern anti-missile systems for Ukraine in sufficient quantity.’
The speaker of the lower house of Russia’s parliament has told members in a plenary session that Ukraine had become a “terrorist state”, according to remarks posted on the State Duma’s website.
