Russia fires missile barrage across Ukraine as Putin addresses security conference – National | 24CA News
Russian forces unleashed missiles throughout Ukraine early on Tuesday, killing and wounding civilians and damaging infrastructure. The barrage got here simply hours earlier than high Russian navy officers and their counterparts from allied international locations in Asia, the Middle East and Africa gathered exterior Moscow for a safety convention.
Missiles struck cities from the east to west of Ukraine, together with far behind entrance strains the place Ukraine is preventing deeply entrenched Russian forces to regain territory occupied by Moscow nearly 18 months into the warfare.
Russia has constructed closely fortified defenses alongside the greater than 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) entrance line the place Ukraine has solely made incremental good points since launching a counteroffensive in early June.
“Deliberate large-scale attacks on civilians. Solely for the sake of killing and psychological pressure,” presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak mentioned on X, previously generally known as Twitter, commenting on the newest Russian assaults.
Six Russian-launched missiles hit the western area of Lviv, wounding 19 folks, together with a 10-year-old little one, Lviv Gov. Maksym Kozytskyi mentioned. According to metropolis authorities, the ability grid and practically 120 residential buildings have been broken.
The Swedish bearings maker SKF confirmed three staff have been killed in a single day after its manufacturing facility in Lutsk, north of Lviv, was hit by a missile strike. One individual was killed within the east of Ukraine in Kramatorsk after Russian forces hit a meals warehouse. In central Ukraine, a strike left components of the town of Smila with out entry to water and likewise broken a medical facility.
The barrage got here a day after Russian forces unleashed a wave of missile and drone strikes on Odesa within the nation’s southwest.
Russian forces have pummeled Odesa, hitting services that transport Ukraine’s essential grain exports and likewise wrecking cherished Ukrainian historic websites. The repeated assaults on Odesa comply with Moscow’s resolution to interrupt off a landmark settlement that had allowed grain to move from Ukraine to international locations in Africa, the Middle East and Asia and assist scale back the specter of starvation.
In Russia on Tuesday, Vladimir Putin addressed a safety convention exterior Moscow in a pre-recorded video assertion, accusing the West of fueling the battle “by pumping billions of dollars” into Kyiv and “supplying it with equipment, weapons, ammunition, sending their military advisers and mercenaries.”
“Everything is being done to ignite the conflict even more, to draw other states into it,” Putin mentioned.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu sought to downplay the importance of the West’s help for Ukraine, saying that regardless of that, Kyiv’s forces “fail to achieve results on the battlefield.”
On Thursday, Sweden introduced a 3.4 billion-kronor ($314 million) assist bundle consisting of ammunition for tools from earlier Swedish navy help.
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