……… As several Russian soldiers killed, Ukrainian civilian deaths near 600
By Boma Nwuke
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered the third week on Thursday with nearly six hundred Ukrainian civilian deaths.
Major cities including Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, Dnipro and Lutsk are being” subjected to devastating blows” Mykhailo Podoliak,an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian President’s office said on Friday.
Podoliak wrote on Twitter that explosions shut down two boiler houses in Lutsk located in the far west near the Polish border while three major explosions were reported in the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk.
He added” Dnipro is also under attack.
” Russia’s aggressive war against civilians and major cities continues” he said.
In the same vein, Ukraine’s Emergency Service said one person was killed Friday in the city of Dnipro after three airstrikes in the early morning that hit a kindergarten,an apartment building and a two- story shoe factory.
The airstrikes happened at around 6.30 a.m local time in the Novokodatskyl district of the city.. It said.
Lutz city mayor,Ihor said on his Facebook page” Today at approximately 5:45 there were three explosions. Three missiles hit our military airfield. There is one dead. Information about the injured is being clarified. The SES ( State Emergency Service) is working on the spot” he said.
The dead toll of Ukrainian civilians is nearly 600, .
According to the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has killed at least 543 civilians,41 of whom were children while 957 civilians have been injured.
“Most of the civilian casualties were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area” the office said.
Meanwhile, Heavy fighting has been reported as Russian forces continue to make advance toward Kyiv with imaginary success.
Experts in War said that the Russian troops are being given what they did not bargain for as their tanks, vehicles and other equipment of war are being damaged and thousands of its soldiers neutralised by Ukraine,a country that it undermined, that is underarmed and undermanned unlike Russia,a ” Global Super Power.”
The G7 countries comprising, Canada, Japan, United States, United Kingdom,Italy, Germany and France feared that Putin might resort to using nuclear weapons.
Their fears followed Putin’s orders in the wake of the invasion to increase the alert level of Russia’s nuclear forces and has made unprovoked nuclear threats.
Also, the number of Russian soldiers including top generals killed in war with Ukrainians appears to have made Putin speechless but fear of losing the war and being ousted at home and abroad might compel him to going in the direction of nuclear weapons which the countries warn would be catastrophic.
At the moment, over 2 million Ukrainians have escaped the targeted civilian neighborhoods missile fires and killings and fled to neighbouring countries
The West has imposed biting economic sanctions on Russia even banning oil imports from the country, Major companies are pulling out of Russia, but a defiant Putin rather prefer his onslaught of Ukraine than bowing to wise counsel to retreat.
