An attack by the Ukrainian Army with drones caused a partial interruption of the electricity supply in the Russian region of Oryolnear the border with Ukraine, after causing damage to energy infrastructure.
“The Oriol region was attacked again by enemy unmanned aerial vehicles. During its neutralization, the energy infrastructure facilities of the Glazunovski and Sverdlovski districts were damaged, which caused a partial interruption of the electricity supply to several homes,” the governor of Oryol, Andrei Klichov, reported on his Telegram channel.
Klichov also assured that the emergency services have already managed to end “the consequences of the attack” after restoring the power supply.
Besides, a russian attack with missiles left more than 10 injured early Thursday morning in Odessaa Ukrainian port city that was the target of deadly shelling earlier this week, local authorities reported.
“A new Russian attack with ballistic missiles” hit Odessa, Guennadii Trujanov, mayor of this southwestern Ukrainian city, said on Telegram.
“Civil infrastructure was destroyed” and “13 people were injured” in the attack, the mayor said, adding that firefighters were trying to put out a large fire.
Oleg Kiper, governor of the Odessa region, stated that the “Russian missile attack on Odessa left 14 injured.”
Odessa, a port on the Black Sea Vital to Ukrainian exports, it is a frequent target of deadly missile and drone attacks.
Local authorities reported on Wednesday morning at least three deaths from a Russian attack on Odessa. A similar attack on Monday killed five people.
Russia has been relentlessly attacking Ukrainian cities for months and is advancing on Ukraine’s eastern front before the arrival of American military aid.
Besides, USA denounced this Wednesday that Russia violated the international ban on chemical weapons with the use of asphyxiant agent chloropicrin and others riot control substances in their offensives Ukraine. According to the State Department in a statement, this is a method typical of its war strategy whose sole purpose is to take advantage over the enemy side.
“The use of such chemicals It is not an isolated incident and is probably driven by he desire of Russian forces to dislodge Ukrainian forces from fortified positions and make tactical advances on the battlefield“, specifies the writing.
Chloropicrin is considered an asphyxiant agent and is therefore banned by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which works to implement and monitor compliance with the 1933 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Its first appearance in a large-scale war context was during World War I, when German forces fired this gas against Allied troops.
Added to this complaint was that made recently by the Ukrainian Army itself, which maintains that Moscow has been intensifying the use – also illegal – of anti-riot agents in its offensives in the east of the country. To do this, they would have used grenades loaded with CS and CN gases that, although used in a context of protests with civilians, allow them to flee and take refuge, in the case of war, where soldiers are trapped in trenches without gas masks, in the presence of the substance are seen forced to flee their positions under enemy fire.
(With information from Europa Press and AFP)
