Ukraine has accused Russia of changing tactics with targeted missile attacks on residential areas.
“There is no doubt that they are carrying out direct attacks on civilian apartment buildings or places where there are many houses of civilians,” said the adviser to the presidential office, Mykhailo Podoliak, on Ukrainian television on Tuesday night. Among other things, Moscow wants to provoke a premature counter-offensive by Kiev.
The Kremlin wants to test whether Ukraine is able to protect its own airspace. In the past few days, there had been several Russian rocket attacks with civilian casualties. In Uman in particular, a rocket hit a residential building on Friday, claiming many lives.
Heavy damage from Russian cruise missiles
Russian cruise missiles also caused severe damage and killed at least two people in the city of Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Kiev denies that military targets were hit. The information could not be verified independently.
Several people were killed in Russian rocket attacks and artillery duels yesterday in Ukraine. According to the General Staff in Kiev, the Russian armed forces used cruise missiles and fighter jets.
Several civilians were killed or injured in attacks in the east of the country and in central Ukraine. In addition, numerous buildings were damaged or destroyed.
