The ukrainian army reported a new wave of Russian drone attacks in the eastern and southern regions of the country during the night of this Wednesday.
The first of the four drones was headed for the region of Nikolaev while the rest aimed Zaporizhzhya Y dniproaccording to information from the Ukrainian news agency united.
Several groups of these devices were also registered heading Kharkiv and Poltava. Many of them were shot down by the Ukrainian military forcesas reported by the aforementioned media.
According to the Russian authorities, these devices would be the Kamikaze Shahed Drones, Iranian-made, claims that are denied by Tehran.
Earlier this week, the head of the Iranian Armed Forces, Mohamad Hosein Baqeribranded as “psychological warfare” the accusations for the alleged shipment to Russia of drones for use in the invasion of Ukraine.
Baqeri blamed the accusations on the “world hubris” and said that “it is part of the enemy psychological warfare”, while stressing that the fact that these accusations are made is proof of the “great influence” and “importance” of the drone industry in Iran, according to the agency. tasnim.
stated that Iran It is one of the five main powers in this field and added that the authorities will continue to increase the capabilities of its drones. “In line with the Islamic Republic’s decisions and guidance, we will continue to cooperate with other countries in the drone industry,” he warned.
The ukrainian troops now focus their efforts on gaining the control of the city of Kreminnaa strategic crossroads located between both regions of the Donbas.
The head of the Lugansk Military Administration, Serhiy Haidai, He assured that the Russian command has already left the city, as have the civilians who had been sent from Russia.
Haidai stressed that the capture of Kreminna would pave the way to reconquer the towns leading to Lysychansk and Severodonetsk (Lugansk), strongholds lost by kyiv in June-July.
According to information from the newspaper The New York TimesUkrainian troops are already fighting on the outskirts of kreminna and they are close to liberating said town.
Due to the geographical position of Kreminna, the town is seen as a priority by the Ukrainian military command”, acknowledged the pro-Russian military spokesman from Lugansk, Andrei Marochko.
Marochko, who denounced a concentration of Ukrainian troops in the axis Svatove-Kreminnastressed that Moscow expects a Ukrainian offensive from the northwest, west and southwest.
For Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky, kyiv’s ultimate goal is restore the territorial integrity of the country and release all Ukrainians held by Russia.
The president insisted on the need to create a international court to punish Russian war criminals, a role that Holland is willing to take.
In addition, he stressed that the reconstruction of Ukraine after the combats in the image and likeness of the Marshall Plan after the WWII will be “the largest economic project in Europe”.
In the opinion of the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov“Russia continues to set itself maximalist goals in its war: the destruction of the state and the extermination of Ukrainians as a nation.”
“We are halfway to victory. Ahead lies the hardest stage. Finally expel the aggressor from our land and punish him for his crimes, ”he stressed on Twitter.
As reported by the UN on Wednesday, the fighting in Ukraine has cost the lives of 6,884 civilians since last February 24.
(With information from EFE and Europa Press)
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