Rome, 10 March 2022 – The war between Russia e Ukraine it has reached its fifteenth day. The offensive of the Moscow forces continues, the action is concentrated in the encirclement of Kiev and in the eastern and southern fronts of the country. Even the bombings do not stop, the most affected are Mariupolwhere 1,207 civilians have already died and yesterday an air attack hit a children’s hospitale Sumy struck in the night joins the city of Okhtyrka, which records the death of 13 year old boy and two women and the destruction of a pipeline. Due children killed also in the village of Slobozhanske, near Kharkiv. Russian air raids in the night also in the city of Zhytomyrwest of Kiev: hit two hospitals and a power plant.And while at least 35,000 civilians have fled from the country in the last 24 hours alone, the president Volodymyr Zelensky returns to accuse Moscow of war crimes for the bombs against the children’s hospital: “The definitive proof that the genocide of the Ukrainians “, and calls for a” no-fly humanitarian zone over Ukraine “. But the US and NATO have their hands tied because an intervention in the skies of Ukraine would mean going to war, with disastrous consequences such as a nuclear confrontation. Washington then, responding to accusations from Moscow on alleged biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine, speculates the risk that Russia “use chemical weapons”.
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During the night, Russian fighters bombed the city of Okhtyrka and the village of Bytytsya in the Sumy region, killing a 13-year-old boy and two women. Residential buildings and civil infrastructure were also affected, the head of the Sumy regional administration Dmytro Zhyvytsky told the Kiev Independent. “Five people were rescued, two of them children. The police department was also partially destroyed,” Zhyvytsky said. Two children also died in the village of Slobozhanske, near the city of Kharkiv. The shelling of the Russian armies hit a residential building killing 4 people. A 5-year-old girl was injured, rushed to hospital, but other bodies are sought under the rubble. Air raids also on the port city of Mariupol, where a pediatric hospital was hit yesterday (Moscow denies), and where 1,200 civilians have already died. In Zhytomyr, west of Kiev, two hospitals and a power plant bombed.
From the briefing of the Ukrainian General Staff the confirmation that the Russian forces are continuing their “offensive operation” to surround Kiev, continuing to attack other fronts in the cities of Izioum, Petrovske, Hruchuvakha, Sumy, Okhtyrka, and also in the Donetsk and Zaparojie regions . To the south, Mariupol continues to be the most tormented by the fighting, also because it is defended by the disputed Ukrainian ultra-nationalist “Azov” battalion that the Donbass forces and also the Chechen regiments have sworn to annihilate. The siege of the port city has the most tragic toll among civilians: 1,200 in 9 days of fighting, and the humanitarian corridors continue to fail. Yesterday a children’s hospital damaged, 17 employees injured. The Ukrainian military authorities assure that the defense of Kiev “is constantly ready to repel the enemy’s offensive, inflicts damage with artillery fire on the offensive groups of the occupiers and maintains some defensive lines”. Specifically, resistance to the Russian advance towards Odessa intensifies in the southern area: “the enemy is held back in the direction of Kryvyi Rih, Mykolayiv, Voznesensk and Novovorontsovka (Kherson region)”.
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