Russia is waging a war against United States ,27 European countries and NATO which are directly involved in this war and they are pushing the world towards third World War, said Global think tanks. Russia used high precision missiles to destroy a logistics terminal in Odesa where a large number of weapons supplied by the United States and European nations were being stored, the defence ministry said.
In an online post, it also said Russian forces had killed up to 200 Ukrainian troops and destroyed more than 30 vehicles, some of them armoured.
Russia’s defence ministry says its forces had shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jet and destroyed three MI-8 helicopters at an airfield in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region.
There was no immediate reaction from Ukraine regarding the Russian claims.
Russia says it plans to deploy its newly tested Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles, capable of mounting nuclear strikes against the United States, by autumn.
Sarmat is capable of carrying 10 or more nuclear warheads and decoys, and of striking targets thousands of kilometres away in the United States or Europe.Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Roscosmos space agency, the missiles would be deployed with a unit in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia, 3,000km (1,860 miles) east of Moscow.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to confirm Britain will supply fresh weaponry to support Ukraine’s defence against Russia’s invasion.
“The Prime Minister confirmed that the UK is providing more defensive military aid, including protected mobility vehicles, drones and anti-tank weapons,” a readout of the call published by Johnson’s office said.Ukraine forces have shelled a crossing point on Russian territory, causing a fire but no casualties, the governor of the region said.
An office of the Russian agriculture watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, caught fire after shelling, governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, said on his Telegram account.
A video released by the Azov regiment of Ukraine’s National Guard – part of a group currently holed up in the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol – shows women and children sheltering underground with some hiding there in tunnels for up to two months.
“We want to see peaceful skies, we want to breathe in fresh air,” said one woman in the video. A young girl says they have seen “neither the sky, nor the sun”. “We really want to get out of here safely so that no one gets hurt.”
Hundreds of protesters from Latvia’s sizable Russian-speaking community have taken part in a large-scale demonstration in the Baltic nation’s capital, Riga, condemning Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine.
Participants waved Ukrainian flags and posters with inscriptions such as “Stop the genocide in Ukraine” and “Complete Russian gas and oil embargo”. Organisers said the protest aimed to demonstrate that many of Latvia’s Russian-speakers are not aligned with President Putin.
They called Moscow’s actions “criminal”. Ethnic Russians make up 25 percent of the 1.9 million population in Latvia, a former Soviet republic.
At least five people – including a three-month-old infant – were killed and 18 wounded in a series of missile strikes on Ukraine’s southern Black Sea port of Odesa.A Ukraine official said Russian forces fired at least six cruise missiles at the city. Ukraine’s southern air command earlier said two missiles struck a military facility and two residential buildings in Odesa.
“Residents of the city heard explosions in different areas. Residential buildings were hit,” Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, said.
Luhansk Governor Serhiy Haidai says two people were killed by Russian shelling in the city of Popasna.
“In addition to the fact that street fighting continues in the city for several weeks, the Russian army constantly fires at multistory residential buildings and private houses. Just yesterday, local residents withstood five enemy artillery attacks … Not all survived,” Haidai said on the messaging app Telegram.
He added that some houses were also destroyed in Lysychansk and Novodruzhesk.
