Cover image: A resident of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region brings an electric heater home on March 9, 2023. SERGEY BOBOK / AFP
- Massive Russian missile and drone strikes in Ukraine, largest in weeks, killed 11 on Thursday. Russia called the strikes, which it carried out with the help of new hypersonic Kinjal missiles, among others, “retaliations” to an incursion into its territory on 2 March “saboteurs” Ukrainians.
- Part of the Ukrainian population was deprived of power following these attacks. The strikes cut off electricity, water and heating in Kharkiv, a large city in the northeast, and deprived 40% of users of heating in kyiv, according to local authorities.
- The gigantic Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, occupied by the Russian army in southern Ukraine, was also briefly cut off from the Ukrainian electricity network.raising fears of a nuclear accident.
- “We have already shown what Ukraine is capable of”said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday evening. “And no matter how treacherous Russia’s actions are, our state and our people will not be chained. »
- In eastern Ukraine, the battle for the symbolic city of Bakhmout continues to rage. After announcing the day before the capture of the eastern part of the city, the boss of the Russian paramilitary organization Wagner Group, Evgueni Prigojine, said Thursday that his fighters had conquered the small village of Doubovo-Vassylivka, north of Bakhmout.
- In Moldova, the pro-Russian separatists of Transnistria assured on Thursday that Ukraine had wanted to carry out an attack in the center of their capitalTiraspol, for ” eliminate “ their leaders and make “a large number of victims”. Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean said “not having confirmation” of these allegations.
- In Vilnius, the head of Lithuanian military intelligence for his part estimated that Moscow has enough resources to continue its offensive in Ukraine at the current rate for two years.
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