The war has continued this Thursday irretrievably throughout Ukraine, in a day in which no concrete progress was made for an immediate ceasefire. On the contrary, attacks They resumed with special virulence in the towns already martyred by the Russian offensive in recent days and affected, for example, the city of Merefa, a few kilometers from Kharkiv, in the east of the country. There, according to the Ukrainian authorities, a bombardment destroyed a school and a cultural center, claiming the lives of at least 21 people and seriously injuring ten others.
The continuation of a war that no one knows when and how it will end has also struck again Kyivwhere parts of a missile they fell in the morning on a building in Darnytskiy, a residential area. As a result of the attack, at least one person died and another day a large fire developed at the site of the impact of the missile fragment. Later in the afternoon, the Ukrainian emergency services also reported a new bombing on Sviatoshyn, another suburb of the Ukrainian capital, in what already seems like a tactic of the Russian army to wear down the Ukrainian resistance little by little.
Hence, on the twenty-second day of the war, shots were also still heard on the outskirts of Ukraine’s largest city, and the trickle of people continuing to try to leave the Ukrainian capital to the west of the country continued. Although also in this area, a new attack was launched on Wednesday night against a military structure located in the city of Sarny, 200 kilometers from Poland and near the border with Belarusaccording to the AP agency, citing local sources.
Slow siege of big cities
However, during the day, the greatest concern focused on the port town of Mariupol, where, hours after Wednesday’s attack on the city’s Drama Theater, Ukrainian rescuers began evacuating living survivors who were found in the building’s anti-aircraft bunker, which withstood the shelling. Dozens of people were saved in this way, despite the fact that the building – once one of the main cultural centers of Mariupol, converted into a shelter for displaced people with the start of the war three weeks ago – was reduced to rubble, according to the information released. by the Ukrainian authorities, which Moscow has rejected, and that, immediately, could not be confirmed by independent sources.
Sadder still, if possible, has been the news from Chernigova city near Ukraine’s border with Belarus and Russia. Viacheslav Chaus, head of the State Administration of this region, reported that at least 53 people were transferred to the city’s morgues during the day, as a result of the latest fighting. “The enemy is exposing the city to systemic artillery and air strikes, destroying the civilian infrastructure of Chernigov & rdquor ;, said the regional representative, also suggesting that attempts are being made to leave the city without water, gas and electricity.
Still, the Ukrainian authorities and the Ministry of Defense of United Kingdom They again maintained that the Russian advance has stalled throughout the country, although the counts of dead soldiers and battle tanks, armored vehicles, and other war vehicles lost by the Russian and Ukrainian Army are impossible to verify due to the lack of reliable information from the contenders. In this climate, Wednesday’s news on progress in the negotiations to reach a peace agreement they continued without weakening in the population the conviction that the war will not end quickly and that the battle for kyiv has yet to be waged. “Little by little they are getting closer & rdquor ;, was one of the most repeated phrases during the day.
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The reason for the mistrust was also the latest statements made by both sides, which have been far from providing clarity. Example were the words of the Ukrainian negotiator Mikhailo Podolyak who insisted that the dialogue is “complicated & rdquor; and “the positions of the parties are different & rdquor ;, while he said that there is a possibility of a meeting between the presidents of Ukraine and Russia, Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin. Podolyak then added that reconciliation “can take a few days to a week and a half. During this time, we must move closer to a peace agreement & rdquor ;.
In this context, one of the few certainties is that the war continues to claim civilian lives. Specifically, according to the office of the High Commissioner for United Nations for Human Rights, a total of 780 civilians -of which 58 minors- have died since the beginning of the conflict, and some 1,200 have been injured. A dramatic balance that also includes the names of five dead journalists and at least three wounded, and to which must be added the more than 3 million displaced people who have fled to other areas of Ukraine or to other neighboring countries, since the beginning of the fratricidal war conflict.