Even Lviv, a city in western Ukraine where numerous diplomatic representations have moved delegations was hit by a Russian missile attack, aimed at an aeronautical establishment.
Local authorities say rockets, launched from the Black Sea, damaged a building where planes were being repaired. Moscow instead claims to have destroyed an aircraft apron with parked combat aircraft.
In Mikolayiv, in the South West, reports the BBC, a Russian missile attack hit some barracks killing at least 45 Ukrainian soldiers. The city has been under intense bombing for weeks after Russian forces tried in vain to outflank it to the north to aim directly at Odessa.
In the other great southern port, Mariupol, exhausted by the siege, the fighting has reached the center of the city, while the emergency services are working to save the hundreds of people who are allegedly trapped under the rubble of a bombed theater. hampered by Russian bombing.
The Russian defense ministry said its forces are “tightening the noose” around the city and they are “fighting the nationalists” in the urban area.
The mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boichenko, confirmed the violence of the fighting in the strategic port center, where over 350,000 civilians are blocked.
Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, continues to be the target of intense bombing. According to the emergency services, a school building was hit and at least one person died.
In another eastern city, Kramatorsk, unconfirmed information reports a shelling that allegedly killed two people and injured six others.
Fragments of a Russian missile then fell on a five-story residential building in northern Kiev, killing one resident.
The capital is preparing to resist and the inhabitants are turning it into a fortress, erecting defense lines and barricades.
According to British intelligence, Moscow’s forces have made “minimal progress” this week and are preparing for a war of wearily, long since vanished from any prospect of a quick seizure of the country.