Ukraine accuses Russia of further stepping up its deadly bombardment in the east, where its troops are fiercely resisting, and according to Moscow, hit back at oil rigs in the Black Sea off Crimea, annexed in 2014.
In Lyssytchansk, a neighboring town of Severodonetsk in the Donbass, the governor of the Lugansk region claims that the Russian army is inflicting “catastrophic destruction”.
Here is all the news on this 118th day of war in Ukraine.
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6:25 am | The Russians “fully control” the village of Tochkivka on the front line
The Russians “fully control” the village of Tochkivka on the front line in the Donbass (east), a few kilometers from Severodonetsk and Lyssytchansk where the fighting is raging, local Ukrainian authorities said on Tuesday.
“According to our information, the Russians have full control of Tochkivka,” Severodonetsk district head Roman Vlasenko told Ukrainian television, indicating that “the pressure persists” on the front line where “the battle for Donbass is in full swing” .
6:14 am | Death of a Spaniard who went to fight in Ukraine
A Spaniard, who left to fight Russian troops in Ukraine, died in this country on Saturday, we learned on Tuesday from the Spanish Foreign Ministry, which did not specify the circumstances of the death.
“We confirm the death of a Spaniard on Saturday in Ukraine,” a spokesman for the ministry told AFP, without giving either the identity or the age of the victim.
6:09 | Transit to Kaliningrad: Moscow promises “serious” consequences for Lithuania
Russia on Tuesday promised “serious” measures against Lithuania, which has introduced restrictions for certain goods transiting to the enclave of Kaliningrad, a consequence of European sanctions against Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine.
“Russia, of course, will react to such hostile acts. Appropriate measures are being developed at inter-ministerial level and will be adopted shortly. They will have serious negative consequences for the people of Lithuania,” said Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council, during a visit to Kaliningrad, quoted by the Interfax agency.
5:22 | Black Sea: a Russian platform and its well on fire the day after shooting
The fire ravaging a hydrocarbon drilling platform in the Black Sea has spread to the offshore well after being hit the day before by Ukrainian fire according to Moscow, a Russian official said on Tuesday.
“The fire on the platform does not calm down, we tried in vain to approach it by boat. The fire has spread to the well, attempts to extinguish it are continuing,” said a senator from the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea annexed by Russia, Olga Kovitidi, quoted by the Ria Novosti news agency.
4:08 | “Catastrophic destruction” in Lysychansk
The Russian army is inflicting “catastrophic destruction” in Lysytchansk, a neighboring town of Sievierodonetsk in the Donbass (east), said Tuesday the governor of the Lugansk region, Serguiï Gaïdaï.
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“Fighting (ongoing) in the industrial zone of Sievierodonetsk and catastrophic destruction in Lyssytchansk”, indicated Mr. Gaïdaï on Telegram, estimating that “the last 24 hours have been difficult” for the Ukrainian forces.
1h30 | Russian TV now broadcast throughout an occupied region of southern Ukraine
The Russian army announced on Tuesday that it had connected the entire Kherson region to Russian television channels which will now be accessible “free of charge” in this region conquered by Moscow in southern Ukraine.
“Specialists from Russian Armed Forces transmission units have connected and reconfigured to broadcast Russian channels the last of seven television transmitters in the Kherson region,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement, adding that an estimated one million people in the region now have access to these channels.
1h00 | In eastern Ukraine, two cities are preparing for the worst
“The city is ready to defend itself,” insists Vadym Lyakh, mayor of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine, which could soon become a hotspot for fighting as Moscow’s troops advance from the north.
Outside his office in this leafy little town in the Donetsk region, people were filling bottles from a large barrel of water on Monday.
The situation “is complex, because the front has come closer in recent weeks, up to 15-20 kilometers,” Mr. Lyakh told AFP, wearing a military-style khaki T-shirt. It is to be hoped that “the new weapons that our army needs will arrive soon”, he adds.
0h46 | Cut off from the world: the new life of Kherson residents under Russian occupation
Relatives they have no news of, consumer prices skyrocketing: this is the new life of the inhabitants of Kherson (southern Ukraine), cut off from the world, in their city occupied by the Russians since the early days of the war.
The many testimonies reported by residents to AFP, some of which are published in this article, however, could not be independently verified.
Alyona Lapchouk, 54, learned of the death of her husband, Vitaly, after several weeks of research. His body was found in a river.
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