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Russia bombs Chernigov and claims there is nothing “promising” in dialogue with Ukraine


The city of Chernigovlocated in the north of Ukraine, has been bombarded “all night” at Russian troops, according to the governor of the region, despite the fact that Russia announced on Tuesday that it would “drastically” reduce its military activity in this town and in kyiv. “Chernigov was bombed all night” with artillery and planesthe governor has indicated this Wednesday Vyacheslav Chaus in your Telegram account.

On Mariupol, a building of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was also targeted by Russian bombardment. “The occupants deliberately bombed an ICRC building in Mariupol,” Liudmila Denisova, head of human rights in the Ukrainian parliament, wrote on Telegram. “At the moment, we have no information on casualties,” she added, without specifying how many people might have been in the building at the time of the bombing.

The Russian announcement, made aftere the negotiations between the two countries in Istanbul, generated expectations that evaporated after a few hours and when Russia assured this Wednesday that there is nothing “promising” after the negotiations with Ukraine. “At the moment, we cannot report anything very promising or a breakthrough. There is a lot of work to be done,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov told reporters.

Without water and electricity

On the ground the “situation does not change”, according to Ukrainian authorities. “Chernigov was bombarded all night” with artillery and planes, said Governor Viacheslav Chaus, who specified that the town was still without water or electricity. This city, which had 280,000 inhabitants before the war, is “without communications and we can no longer repair them,” he added, mentioning that there were also attacks against Nizhyn, in the same region.

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After Mariupol in the south, Chernigov is the city hardest hit by bombing since the start of the war launched by Moscow on February 24.

“In the last 24 hours, the Russians have bombed inhabited areas and iCivil infrastructures of the kyiv region“, assured the governor of the region, Olaxander Pavliuk, in Telegram, specifying that the areas north of kyiv were the most affected (Bucha, Irpin, Vyshgorod, Brovary).

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The Ukrainian General Staff was very skeptical of the Russian announcement to reduce the offensive. “At the moment, unfortunately, we cannot see that the Russians are reducing the intensity of hostilities in the direction of kyiv and Chernigov,” Vadim Denisenko, adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, said on Wednesday.

For the spokesman for the US Department of Defense, John Kirby, it would only be a “repositioning” and not a “true withdrawal”.


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