The regional administration that it is about a convoy that passed through Melitopol from the peninsula taken in 2014
Zaporizhzhia denounced that Russian troops are transferring military personnel and equipment from Crimea
The Zaporizhzhia regional administration denounced this Thursday that Russian troops are transferring military personnel and equipment from the Crimea region to Zaporizhzhia , taken by Russian forces as part of the offensive launched on February 24.
“From the Crimean peninsula, the Russian Federation is transferring its forces, not only ground troops, but also air and naval components,” he denounced in a message on his official Telegram profile, as reported by the news agency Unian.
Specifically, a convoy of military equipment passed through Melitopol from Crimea, as well as around 20 trucks and 20 fire-fighting installations. “All this shows that Russia will try to keep the occupied territories under its control,” he said, according to various Ukrainian media.
For his part, the hetman of the Zaporizhzhia region, Sergei Yurchenko, indicated that cossack squads have been formed in the “liberated” cities and towns to “protect humanitarian convoys, distribute food packages and other aid to the population”, according to the TASS news agency.
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GENOCIDE IN DONBAS
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky accused Moscow of carrying out a “ genocide” in the eastern Donbas region, where the city of Severodonetsk is suffering from an avalanche of Russian bombing.
In his daily televised speech, Zelensky condemned Moscow’s brutal assault on the Donbas, where he has redirected his forces after failing to capture kyiv,adding that their bombardment could leave the entire region “uninhabited”.
“All of this, including the deportation of our people and the mass killing of civilians, is a clear policy of genocide followed by Russia,” he said.
Pro-Moscow separatist groups have controlled parts of Donbas since 2014, but now Russia looks poised to take the entire region.
The invading forces are closing in on several cities, including the strategically located Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, which lie on the crucial route to the administrative center of the eastern Ukraine in Kramatorsk.
Three people were killed in attacks on those two cities, kyiv Deputy Defense Minister Ganna Malyar told reporters, saying the fighting in the east have reached “their maximum intensity” since Russia invaded on February 24.
(With information from Euro pa Press)