Ukraine warned that Monday that Russian troops were preparing to intensify their struggle for the main cities in Donbas, as President of Volodymyr Zelensky with bitter accusing Canada to damage sanctions against Moscow.
In Ukraine East – The focal point for Russian attacks that are killed from the weekend of shooting an apartment building in the city of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region rose to 33, according to emergency services.
Savior dozens can be seen working in the middle of the ruins of the building which was partly destroyed on Monday, assisted by mechanical diggers.
Previously, the deadly Russian rocket attack hit Kharkiv, the city of the two countries, in an attack targeted on the “shopping center and civil residence”, said the Head of Regional Oleg Syyegubov.
Prosecutors in his area said “Six civilians were killed, including a 17-year-old child and his father, who was passing through” during the attack, according to the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
The Ukrainian army warned, meanwhile, that Russian troops were likely to plan to launch some of their toughest attacks in the Donetsk region.
“There are signs of enemy units that are preparing to intensify combat operations towards Krammatorsk and Bakhmut,” he said, referring to the two main cities that are still under the control of Ukraine.
The latest attack in Ukraine came when Europe prepared for deeper cutting in gas supply from Russia.
On Monday, Russian gas giant, Gazprom started more than a week of routine maintenance in the Nord Stream 1 pipe – with Germany and other European countries watching anxiously to see if the gas returned.
During the weekend, Ottawa agreed to send to the German turbine who was undergoing maintenance in Canada, whose absence Russia blamed a decline in supply.
Steps by Canada, who came despite sanctions against Russia and appeal from Ukraine, encouraged Kyiv to call the Ambassador of Ottawa.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs must call the Canadian envoy to our country because of the correct exception -unacceptable for the sanctions against Russia,” Zelensky said in his daily speech about Telegram.
Germany and other European countries distracted worried about the energy supply after ENI Italy and OMV Austria said Gazprom increasingly reduced gas supply.
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February, Germany suspected the second pipe certification, Nord Stream 2, for fears of growing over the massive dependence of Europe in Russian gas.
– ‘No safe place’ –
The Russian state news agency, Tass, reported that the Head of Pro-Moscow from Velikiy Burluk Village occupied by Russia in Kharkiv was killed after his car was detonated.
Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed “more than 300” Ukraine fighters have been killed in Russian strikes near Chasiv Yar, without giving a date.
Moscow’s slow progress to east-despite the fierce resistance of Ukraine with recent shipping from the artillery provided by the West with their failure to capture the capital of Kyiv at the beginning of the invasion.
In Bucha, a city outside Kyiv, Maxim’s 36-year-old web designer said that only three months ago, Russian soldiers searched for his home and slept in his children’s room.
“In this atmosphere, I feel nothing can happen and life is normal,” he said, sitting with his family outside his home.
“But we know there is war and there is no safe place in Ukraine now.”
Without the end of the visible battle, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte during a visit to Kyiv said his country would supply a long distance artillery ukraine and a assistance package worth 200 million euros ($ 201 million).
Western weapons-especially precision, long distance artillery-“has changed the course of the war,” Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, said previously Monday.
But Moscow also accepted the push of weapons, with Iran planning to supply hundreds of drones with the ability of combat weapons to Russia to be used in Ukraine, a high -ranking US official said.
– ‘Another encroachment’ –
In a bureaucratic sweep in Kyiv, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a Monday decree to accelerate citizenship for all Ukraine people.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv replied to call it “another encroachment of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, not in accordance with the norms and principles of international law.”
This decree was built based on previous orders-including those issued previously in the invasion-making it easier for Ukraine who lived in the area occupied by Moscow to receive a Russian passport.
Putin and his colleague Belarus, a strong person Alexander Lukashenko, meanwhile discussed the possibility of shared steps against the neighbor’s Lithuania over the “illegal” transit restriction that affected the Kaliningrad Moscow exclave.