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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday promised “victory” from the strategic city of Izium, recaptured from the Russians. His hometown of Kryvyi Rig was threatened with flooding after a Russian strike on hydraulic infrastructure.

Hit within the night by seven Russian missiles, in keeping with native authorities, Kryvyi Rig, in central Ukraine, and its 600,000 inhabitants are confronted with the sudden flooding of a river, the Ingulets, which threatens town middle and one other neighborhood.

“On the level of impression, a water circulation of 100 m3 per second is noticed, which is a big quantity. The water degree of the Ingulets modifications each hour,” mentioned the deputy head of the presidential administration Kyrylo Tymoshenko, whereas assuring that the scenario is “below management”.

Mr. Zelensky in the meantime denounced an “try to flood Kryvyi Rig”. The strike triggered no casualties, in keeping with the governor of the area, Valentin Reznitchenko.

reconquest

A number of hours earlier, Mr. Zelensky had traveled to Izium for his first journey to the Kharkiv area since this northeastern space was nearly fully recaptured from the Russians over the previous fortnight.

Metropolis of some 50,000 inhabitants earlier than the warfare, Izioum had been the topic of lethal combating within the spring earlier than being taken by the Russian military, which made it a strategic provide level.

“We’re solely transferring in a single course, ahead, in the direction of victory,” Mr. Zelensky wrote on Telegram on this event, whereas emphasizing the numerous sudden destruction by Izium.

Putin doesn’t acknowledge a mistake

Regardless of Russia’s retreat from the Ukrainians, President Vladimir Putin doesn’t think about the invasion launched on February 24 as a “mistake”, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz mentioned on Wednesday.

Mr Putin in the meantime spoke on the cellphone with UN Secretary Basic Antionio Guterres, hailing “constructive cooperation” across the Zaporizhia nuclear energy plant in southern Ukraine, occupied by Russia, just lately visited by a delegation from the Worldwide Atomic Power Company (IAEA).

He additionally dominated that Ukrainian cereals, whose exports have resumed after months of blockage, ought to go “in precedence” to the nations that want them most, and to not the EU, which he has beforehand accused of get most of it.

Tense scenario”

Ukraine has introduced that it has taken again from the Russians in September alone hundreds of sq. kilometers within the east and south, the place the scenario is “fully tense” and “very dynamic”, warned the spokeswoman for the command Southern Ukrainian Military, Natalia Goumenyuk.

For its half, the Russian military, whose strikes have triggered main energy cuts in a number of Ukrainian areas in latest days, mentioned on Wednesday that it was pounding the Ukrainian forces in all instructions, significantly within the Kharkiv area.

“Huge strikes had been carried out within the areas of Dvoritchna, Balaklya and Kupyansk settlements,” the Russian Protection Ministry mentioned.

In Mykolaiv (South), two buildings had been hit and two folks died, in keeping with native authorities. In Bakhmout, a city within the Donetsk area that Moscow has been attempting to beat for months, 5 civilians had been killed on Tuesday, the regional governor mentioned.

Within the Donetsk area, Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko reported shelling “alongside the complete entrance line”. That of the neighboring area of Lugansk, Serguiï Gaïdaï, introduced that the Russian forces had regained management of the locality of Kreminna.

No appeasement

Armed with Western arms deliveries, Ukraine has recovered nearly all the Kharkiv area, bordering Russia, because of its counter-offensive, and obtained extra modest territorial positive factors within the south, the place it continues to hit bridges utilized by Russian forces.

The Ukrainian advances in September are the most important for the reason that Russians left the outskirts of kyiv and central Ukraine within the spring after failing to grab them.

The West imposed sanctions on Russia and elevated arms deliveries to the Ukrainians. The leaders of the nations of the European Union and NATO go usually to kyiv to indicate their help for Mr. Zelensky.

The President of the European Fee, Ursula von der Leyen, thus introduced earlier than the European Parliament in Strasbourg (France) that she would go there on Wednesday, promising “unwavering solidarity” with Ukraine and firmness in opposition to Moscow.

This text has been revealed robotically. Sources: ats / afp