Three people were killed and at least fourteen injured in a Russian strike in eastern Ukraine, denounced Saturday 28 January in the evening Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “The Russian army fired a missile at our town of Konstantynivka in the Donetsk region… They hit the residential area”he said in his daily address to the nation. “Unfortunately, such bombardments occur every day on our territories, which the Russian army reaches with such missiles. Donbass, Kharkiv region, southern part of the country… It would be possible to stop this Russian terror if we could provide our military with adequate missiles. So that terrorists do not have a feeling of impunity”, he continued. Follow our live.
Fighting in the East. Almost a year after its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow is seeking to take control of the entire Donetsk region, which it has already declared an integral part of Russia. kyiv said this week that Russian troops had stepped up their attacks in the east, including on the towns of Vougledar and Bakhmout. Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that the situation at the front was extremely difficult, especially in the Donetsk region.
North Korea has denied supply arms to Moscow on Sunday, after Washington accused it of delivering rockets and missiles to the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, engaged in Ukraine. Last week, White House Security Council spokesman John Kirby released US intelligence footage showing alleged Russian train cars returning from North Korea loaded with military equipment, including rockets for Wagner.
Moscow accused the Ukrainian army of killing 14 and injuring 24 by hitting a hospital in the Lugansk region, in the separatist east of Ukraine. Saturday morning, “Ukrainian Armed Forces purposely hit local hospital building with Himars rocket launchers” in the locality of Novoaïdar, affirmed the Russian army in an official statement.