(Kyiv) Russia has targeted more than 40 villages around Ukraine over the past day, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday, killing at least two people and fueling a terror that is forcing people to seek refuge in bomb shelters. -aircraft every night.
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Russian forces launched five rockets, 30 airstrikes and more than 100 multiple rocket launcher attacks at Ukrainian targets, the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff listed.
The attacks come amid growing fears that Russia, facing setbacks on the battlefield, may attempt to detonate a device that uses explosives to disperse radioactive waste in a bid to sow terror.
Russia’s defense minister called his Indian and Chinese counterparts to express Moscow’s concern over an alleged Ukrainian plan to use such a ‘dirty bomb’, repeating an allegation that Ukraine and the West have firmly refuted.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu expressed Moscow’s concern over “possible Ukrainian provocations involving a ‘dirty bomb'” during calls with his Indian counterpart, Rajnath Singh, and Chinese Wei Fenghe, according to the Russian ministry. of the defense.
The conversations followed Mr. Shoigu’s calls with his British, French, Turkish and American counterparts on Sunday in which he made the same claim. The United Kingdom, France and the United States dismissed this claim as “manifestly false”.
Despite the Western rejection of Russian claims, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisted that “we have information that there is ongoing preparation in Ukraine for such a terrorist attack.”
“We will continue to vigorously inform the world community of what we know to persuade them to take action to prevent such irresponsible action by the Kyiv regime,” Peskov told reporters.
A Ukrainian official reported on Wednesday that a Russian strike hit a gas station in the city of Dnipro, killing two people, including a pregnant woman. Dnipropetrovsk region governor Valentyn Reznichenko said four injured people had been taken to hospital.
Mykolaiv, a southern port city near the war’s front line, is among the places where locals line up to receive rations of bread and canned goods as rising food prices and food losses income adds to the burden of low-income households in times of war.
Several buildings and neighborhoods were hit in Mykolaiv on Tuesday, but it is still unclear if there were any casualties, according to local authorities.
The missiles continued to rain down early Wednesday morning.
The only food distribution point in Mykolaiv allows each person to receive free bread once every three days. Many have to walk long distances to collect essential foodstuffs for their families.