Ukraine, use the "stupid bombs", hit children's hospital

The systems of the International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia have stopped transmitting data; yesterday there was a similar interruption from the Chernobyl site: the IAEA says it is "worried". Meanwhile Zelensky believes "that the threat of nuclear war is a bluff" by Putin.

"Bombing a children's hospital is definitive proof that the genocide of the Ukrainians is underway": Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message on Telegram, defining the attack "beyond the other side" as well as "a war crime". Speaking in Russian, in an evident appeal to the invaders, Zelensky asked himself, according to the Guardian: "A children's hospital, a maternity ward. How did they threaten the Russian Federation? What country is it that is afraid of hospitals, maternity wards and therefore destroys them? Were they small nationalists (called Banderovites)? Would pregnant mothers have fired on Rostov? Has anyone in the maternity ward humiliated Russian speakers? Or were they de-Nazifying the hospital? ”. Returning to the Ukrainian language, he said: "Europeans, Ukrainians, residents of Mariupol, we must unite in the condemnation of Russia for this crime which reflects all the evil that the invaders have brought to us, on all the destroyed cities ... that had never threatened Russia ".

“Europeans! You cannot say that you did not see what happened to the Ukrainians, what happened to the residents of Mariupol! ".

At the basis of the collateral damage, according to US Defense sources, there would be evidence of Russia's use of "stupid bombs“, The so-called free-fall bombs that do not have a specific target. The Washington Post reports. The source specifies that he does not know if "it was a question of such devices or an error"But what has been found is"an increase in damage to civil infrastructures and an ever increasing number of victims among the population ".

Russian planes conducted raids on the north-east of Ukraine this night, in particular they hit the city of Okhtyrka, in the Sumy region, according to a local administrator quoted by the BBC, according to which residential areas and a gas pipeline were first hit. at 00.30 local time today. While about 10 minutes later it was the turn of the regional capital Sumy and the village of Bytytsia. It is not yet clear whether there are victims.

The Russia "he is not abandoning his plans to encircle”The Ukrainian capital Kiev. This was underlined by the Ukrainian military in the most recent update of the developments on the battle. In the note, cited by the BBC, the chief of staff of the Ukrainian army affirms that his "defense forces are repelling and holding back" the Russian offensive "in all directions".

They are between 5.000 and 6.000 Russian soldiers died in combat in the first two weeks of conflict in Ukraine. This was reported by a US source quoted by CBS. According to the American official, the wounded in the Moscow army are between 15.000 and 18.000. The source called the losses "very, very significant".

In all probability' Russian mercenaries they were deployed to fight in Ukraine in support of the Russian operation. The British Ministry of Defense claims this, citing intelligence information in a recent tweet. We remind you that "the Russian state almost certainly maintains contact with groups of mercenaries despite this being repeatedly denied " and it is emphasized that Russian mercenaries "have been accused of committing human rights abuses in various countries, such as Syria, Libya and the Central African Republic ".

FROM USA. The White House warned of the risk of Russia "using chemical weapons" in Ukraine. In a Twitter post in which he dismissed as "falsehood"The statements of the Russian Foreign Ministry that the US is developing chemical and biological weapons in Ukraine on the border with Russia, the White House spokesperson Jen Psaky stressed that "we should all be alert to Russia's use of chemical weapons or expect Moscow to use them to create a pretext, it's a clear pattern ”.

Yesterday the first vote in the US Congress to approve the budget, the text under consideration also includes 14 billion dollars for Ukraine. These funds should allow Kiev to protect its electricity grid, fight cyber attacks and equip itself with defensive weapons. The package also includes over $ 2,6 billion in humanitarian aid and over $ 1 billion to support refugees fleeing Ukraine. The package also includes over $ 6,5 billion for the Pentagon, which will be used specifically for troop deployment in the region. Funds are also allocated to finance the response against Moscow, starting with the sanctions against the Russian oligarchs.

The US will dispatch two missile defense systems Patriot to Poland, the US command in Europe announced it.

Today, US President Joe Biden will have a telephone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the latest developments in the war in Ukraine. American Vice President Kamala Harris has arrived in Warsaw where she will have talks with Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in the next few hours. At the center of the meetings was the question of the transfer of Polish jets to Ukraine even if the Pentagon, a few hours ago, reiterated that it is out of the question for the moment.

American citizens are collecting weapons to send to the frontline Ukrainians to defend their country from the invasion of Russia. The Guardian reports it. In particular, this involves thousands of bulletproof vests and ammunition. According to the US Trade Department, there are many requests from private citizens to export weapons to Ukraine. Questions the department is trying to process quickly. "The department quickly processed the requests for the export of firearms and ammunition to Ukraine in agreement with the relevant authorities and according to the procedures in force", a spokesperson for the department explained.

VENEZUELA AGAINST THE WEST. The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, warned that for the armed intervention in Ukraine there is the "real danger" of the outbreak of a world nuclear war. During a speech on Venezuelan state TV Vtv, Maduro insisted that “there is a real danger that a nuclear war will break out in the world. There is this danger, and Venezuela is ringing the alarm bell. Venezuela denounces this situation to awaken world consciousness ”. Developing his speech, the Venezuelan head of state argued that in reality "the world war has already begun", and in the "its first phase is economic, with sanctions, embargoes, uncertainty in the supply of oil, fuel, iron, steel, wheat, fertilizers, corn, rice, and raw materials in general ". There is, she continued, "uncertainty in prices, in the supply of food, energy products, the use of currencies, the financial system, to break the resistance of countries, regions". Today, she later said, "there is war on the southern border of Russia because of those, Europe, the West and NATO which have not respected the (Minsk) agreements, of those who tried to surround Russia and target it with nuclear weapons, of those who announced that Ukraine would have nuclear weapons aimed at Russia " These "are responsible for the armed conflict", he assured, adding that "our warning is that economic warfare does not escalate further and become a military war, or what is worse for humanity and for the survival of our species on this planet, a nuclear war ”.

Ukraine, use the "stupid bombs", hit children's hospital