NU.nl regularly gives you an overview of the situation in Ukraine. With this time: There will be an investigation into Ukrainian bomb shelters, after there were reported deaths on Thursday when a door of an air raid shelter did not open. Furthermore, civilian deaths were reported in both Russia and Ukraine on Friday.
After a nine-year-old girl, her mother and another woman were killed in an airstrike in Kyiv on Thursday after the door of the bomb shelter was locked, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ordered bomb shelters to be checked across the country.
This should prevent people from dying again due to malfunctioning air raid shelters. Earlier in the day, Zelensky suggested he also wants to investigate whether the Kyiv city government has made mistakes.
An investigation into the bomb shelters is not a superfluous luxury, because Ukrainian cities are still regularly the target of Russian attacks.
In the capital it was hit again in the night from Thursday to Friday. Ukrainian air defenses shot down 15 Russian cruise missiles and 21 drones, according to Ukraine. Two people – including a child – were injured. That happened due to falling debris, in a region outside the Ukrainian capital.
Civilian deaths reported on both sides of the border
Attacks continue not only in Kyiv, but also in villages near the front. For example, two people were killed in shelling by the Russian army in the Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia. Four others were injured, regional governor Yuriy Malashko said on Telegram.
The Russian troops are said to have hit a multi-storey residential building in Komyshevaha, a village close to the frontline in southeastern Ukraine.
Civilian casualties also appear to have occurred on the Russian side of the border. According to local Russian authorities, two women were killed in shelling of villages and roads southeast of the city of Belgorod on Friday. That has not been independently confirmed. Russia accuses Ukraine.
Ukraine denies involvement
The women would have been in a car that was hit by shrapnel. “They died of their wounds on the spot,” Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov told Telegram. Two other civilians were injured. An evacuation assembly point would also have been hit.
Ukraine denies involvement and says the shelling was done by Russian volunteer fighters. They also report fighting in Russia.
According to the Russian movement The Freedom of Russia Legion, the Russian army itself is guilty. That would have mistaken the car with the women in it for a car of this movement. “This is a direct result of the lack of professionalism of Putin’s army,” the legion said on Telegram.
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Wagner boss accuses army top of planting bombs
The best-known critic of the Russian army, Yevgeny Prigozhin, also made himself heard on Friday. The leader of the mercenary army Wagner accuses the Russian military top of wanting to blow up his men.
During their withdrawal from Bakhmut – 99 percent of the Wagner group is said to have left the eastern Ukrainian city by now – the mercenaries came across all kinds of explosives, including hundreds of anti-tank mines, according to Prigozhin. “It was not necessary to place these charges to scare off the enemy,” Prigozhin said on Telegram. According to him, the area is too far from the front for that. Therefore, he concludes that the explosives were intended for Wagner.
Prigozhin has been arguing with the military top for months. On Wednesday, he asked prosecutors to investigate crimes committed by senior Russian defense officials before or during the war in Ukraine. Earlier he complained that his mercenaries were not getting enough ammunition for their attack on Bakhmut.
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2023-06-02 19:54:00
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