AP and Xinhua
The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, September 1, 2024, p. 18
Moscow. Russia and Ukraine continued their exchange of shelling yesterday, causing dozens of casualties on both sides. Moscow attacked the town of Chasiv Yar and continued its advance in the Donetsk region, while Kiev forces attacked the Russian region of Belgorod, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
Five people were killed in Russian shelling in Chasiv Yar on Monday, hitting a high-rise building and a private home, local leader Vadym Filaskhin said, adding that the victims were men aged between 24 and 38, and urging residents to leave the town, which is close to the battlefront and had a population of 12,000 before the war.
Normal life has been impossible in Chasiv Yar for more than two yearsFilaskhin wrote on social media. Don’t become a Russian target. Go away..
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had captured the town of Pivnichne, also in the Donetsk region. AP could not independently verify this claim.
Russian forces have pushed further into the partially occupied eastern region of Ukraine, and its full capture is one of the Kremlin’s main ambitions.
Cluster bombs
Ukrainian forces attacked the Russian region of Belgorod, killing five people and wounding 37, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said via Telegram, adding that the Ukrainian armed forces used cluster munitions from a multiple launch rocket system. Vampire.
The shelling, the local official said, caused material damage in Belgorod, destroying roofs and windows of two apartment buildings and damaging the glass and facades of civilian facilities as well as commercial properties.
NATO’s Legitimate Incursion
For his part, the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Jens Stoltenberg, stated that the Ukrainian incursion into the Russian region of Kursk responds to Ukraine’s right to self-defense and that, therefore, it is totally legitimate.
Ukraine launched a ground incursion into Kursk via the Sumi border region earlier this month. Since then, its troops have managed to take control of nearly 100 towns and 1,300 square kilometers.