Yet another massacre of the innocents. A Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, 300 thousand inhabitants, 150 kilometers north of the capital Kiev, near the border with Belarus, left at least 17 people dead, all civilians: three Iskander cruise missiles hit a peripheral but densely populated area of the city, destroying an eight-story building and also causing 61 injuries, including three children, and also damaging four skyscrapers, a hospital, a school and dozens of cars. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took advantage of this – it’s his job – to invoke new aid from the allies. “This would not have happened if Ukraine had received sufficient air defense equipment and if the world’s determination to counter Russian terrorism had also been sufficient.” Zelensky yesterday also spoke with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who admitted that «delays in aid have consequences on the ground every day. So my message to allies is clear: send more to Ukraine.” Stoltenberg also announced the convening of the NATO-Ukraine council for tomorrow. Ihor Terekhov, mayor of Kharkiv, the second Ukrainian city subjected to continuous bombing, also pleads for action to be taken quickly. “We need this support to prevent Kharkiv from becoming a second Aleppo,” his cry of alarm. Appeals that seem to have moved something: yesterday Farnesina sources reported movements within the G7 to speed up the delivery of defense systems to Ukraine, accepting the increasingly pressing request of President Volodymyr Zelensky, who in recent days had not hidden a certain resentment for the different treatment given to his country compared to Israel.
While waiting for new weapons to arrive, Kiev does what it can. Yesterday it attacked the Russian military airport of Dzhankoya, in Crimea, with armed drones, killing at least 30 soldiers and injuring 80, the most seriously of whom were transported by helicopter to hospital facilities in Sevastopol. The attack destroyed the S-400 anti-aircraft complex “with the explosion of the launcher and serious damage to other machines in the complex”, as highlighted by the pro-Ukrainian Russian partisans of the Atesh group. And speaking of Russian deaths, yesterday the BBC announced a new count of Russian soldiers who have died since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine carried out with the independent site Mediazona: there would be 50 thousand. A result obtained by crossing different sources of information, such as official press releases, news from the press and on social networks or visits to cemeteries. Neither Ukraine nor Russia have published official casualty reports since the start of the war, relying on estimates, such as the 31,000 deaths reported by Ukraine at the end of February, while the Russian army has never reported its military losses .
In the second year of the war, deaths on the front lines increased by 25 percent.
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