Russian forces are launching a strong attack on the Ukrainian Donetsk region, engaging in fierce combat and firing a lot of artillery.
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The industrialised eastern region of Ukraine that includes Donetsk and Luhansk is known as the Donbas and has witnessed the bloodiest conflict in the continent’s recent memory.
For the benefit of separatists backed by Moscow in two self-declared people’s republics, Russia claims it intends to seize sovereignty of the whole Donbas from Ukraine.
As Russia stepped up its onslaught and air alarms were issued practically everywhere in the nation, the governor of the final eastern region still partially under Ukrainian authority pleaded with his citizens over 350,000 people to leave. In order to preserve lives and improve the Ukrainian army’s ability to defend towns against the Russian advance, governor Pavlo Kyrylenko stated that it is imperative to evacuate the Donetsk province.
After starting the procedures for Sweden and Finland’s entrance to the military alliance, which will bring the total number of members to 32, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and the two foreign ministers of Sweden and Finland praised July 5 as “historic” in Brussels. After the necessary protocols were signed to begin the ratification process, Finland’s Pekka Haavisto said, “The membership of both Finland and Sweden would not only contribute to our personal security, but to the collective security of the alliance.” Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, Sweden and Finland have declared their determination to end decades of military non-alignment and join NATO.
In the eastern Donetsk region, where Russia has increased its onslaught in recent days, a Ukrainian official claims that 25 additional people have been injured and seven civilians have died as a result of Russian shelling in the past 24 hours.
On Wednesday morning, the governor of Donetsk, Pavlo Kyrylenko, posted on Telegram that four persons had been killed: one in Sloviansk, another one in Krasnohorivka, and the other in Kurakhove.
