Russian forces continue to shell eastern Ukraine on Sunday July 10. At least 15 people died in a strike on a building. Other regions are also affected. Franceinfo summarizes the highlights of this 137th day of war.
Building strike kills at least 15
According to the Ukrainian authorities, a Russian strike who gutted an apartment building in Chassiv (east) killed at least 15 people. The strike occurred on the night of Saturday to Sunday in this city of some 12,000 inhabitants. According to the rescue, 24 people are still under the rubble, including a child, while five others were saved from the rubble.
The four-storey building was hit by a Russian Hurricane missile, Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the Donetsk region that the Russian army is seeking to conquer, said on Telegram. AFP journalists who arrived on the spot after the strike saw the partially collapsed building, rescuers and a backhoe working to clear the area.
“The brutal Russian artillery strikes do not stop for a day, Sloviansk, Bakhmout, Avdiivka…”condemned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday evening, again demanding arms “modern and powerful” to defend.
Russian firing continues in different parts of the country
The staff of the Ukrainian army reported Sunday, as the day before, many Russian bombardments but almost no ground assaults by Moscow forces. In Kharkiv (northeast), the second largest city in the country, Governor Oleg Synegoubov reported on Telegram new missile fire which hit a “educational institution” and a house, injuring one. Other Russian strikes are reported in particular near Siversk and Sloviansk (east) as well as in the Mykolaiv region (south).
“High-precision ground weapons hit a temporary deployment point of the artillery unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and an ammunition depot on the territory of the ceramics factory in the city of Sloviansk”said the Russian army. “Up to 100 people” were killed and “more than 1,000 artillery shells for American-made M777 howitzers and about 700 rockets for Grad MLRS” were destroyed, she added.
The website of the German newspaper “Die Welt” blocked in Russia
It has been added to the growing list of sites banned by Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor. German newspaper website Die Welt was blocked in Russia, Russian agencies reported. This blocking took place following a request from the prosecution, specifies this source. The site no longer opened on telephones and computers, noted AFP journalists in Russia.
Since the beginning of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, the German newspaper had begun to publish content in Russian, while most independent information has been repressed in Russia.
The newspaper also employed, for a time, the Russian journalist Maria Ovsiannikova. In March, she had made a remarkable appearance on the set of a pro-Kremlin television news, brandishing a sign against the Russian offensive in Ukraine.