Missiles hit Ukraine’s Odessa after Russia marks World War II victory
Buildings in Odessa lay in ruins on Tuesday (May 10), Kremlin forces shelled the southern Ukrainian port with missiles and Russian President Vladimir Putin led defiant celebrations marking the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II .
While Putin was silent about plans for any escalation in Ukraine, on Monday the Russian army spared fresh fighting to defeat the last Ukrainian soldiers captured at the steelworks in the ruined Mariupol.
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Putin said, “You are fighting for the motherland, for its future, so that no one forgets the lessons of World War II. So that there is no place in the world for executioners, slanderers and Nazis.”
Ukraine’s armed forces said on Facebook that in Odessa, a major Black Sea port for the export of agricultural products, seven missiles hit a shopping center and a depot, killing one person and injuring five.
Video footage from the scene showed fire and rescue workers combing through piles of debris that were still smoking.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promised in his speech on Monday that Ukrainians would win.
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“On Victory Day over Nazism, we are fighting for a new victory. The road to it is difficult, but we have no doubt that we will win,” said Zelensky.
Ukraine – a major corn and wheat producer – and its allies have intensified efforts to unblock ports or provide alternative routes for exports of grain, wheat and corn.
European Council President Charles Michel visited Odessa on Monday, and later urged a global response to aid Ukraine.
Ukraine’s defense ministry said Russian forces backed by tanks and artillery were conducting a “storm campaign” at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, where hundreds of Ukrainian defenders have laid siege for months.
Mariupol lies between the Crimean peninsula seized by Moscow in 2014 and parts of eastern Ukraine under the control of Russia-backed separatists. The capture of the city would allow Moscow to connect the two regions.
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According to Shyamal’s official Twitter account, a meeting between Michel and Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denis Shyamal in Odessa was interrupted by a missile attack, forcing the men into a bomb shelter.
Local media quoted Kharkiv officials as saying that Russian attacks in the town of Bogodukhov, northwest of Kharkiv, killed four people and destroyed several houses.
In some eastern regions of Ukraine, Luhansk, Kharkiv and Dnipro, air strike sirens could be heard as early as Tuesday.
More than 5.5 million Ukrainians have fled their country since Russia’s invasion on February 24, according to the United Nations, which it called Europe’s fastest growing refugee crisis since World War II.
However, Moscow’s advance from the attack has been the slowest and has little to show for it beyond a strip of territory in the south and marginal gains in the east.
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“There can be no victory day in Ukraine, only humiliation and certainly defeat,” said British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace.
In Poland, the Russian ambassador was surrounded by protesters at a memorial ceremony and painted red. Ambassador Sergei Andreyev, his face dripping and his shirt stained, said he was “proud of my country and my president”.
US President Joe Biden said he is worried Putin has “no way out right now, and I’m trying to figure out what we do about it”.
Sources say US Democratic lawmakers have agreed a US$40 billion aid offer for Ukraine, which also includes a massive new arms package.
The White House had earlier described Putin’s remarks during his Victory Day speech as “revisionist history that had taken the form of propaganda”.
The Soviet victory in World War II has acquired an almost religious status in Russia under Putin, who has invoked the memory of the “Great Patriotic War” during a “special military operation” in Ukraine.
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Western countries use a false analogy to justify unprovoked aggression.
Shelter in a subway station in Kharkiv – Ukraine’s predominantly Russian-speaking second city that has been under constant bombardment since the first days of the war – World War II survivor Vira Mykhailivna, 90, holds her tear-stained cheek in her hand. buried.
“I didn’t think this could ever happen to us,” she said. “This day was once a great celebration.”
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Missiles hit Ukraine’s Odessa after Russia marks World War II victory
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