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The day after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared victory in winning the East Ukraine Province which is important for the purpose of his war, a city on the Moscow attack path is under the sustainable bombing, his mayor said Tuesday.
Mayor Vadim Lyakh said on a Facebook that “large -scale shooting” hit Sloviansk, who had a population of around 107,000 before Russia invaded Ukraine more than four months ago. The Mayor, who urged residents a few hours earlier to evacuate, advised them to take shelter in a shelter.
The series targeting Sloviansk underlined fears that Russian troops were positioned to advance further into the Donbas Ukraine region, most of the Russian -speaking industrial areas where the most experienced soldiers in the country were concentrated.
Sloviansk has taken rocket and artillery shots during the Russian War in Ukraine, but the bombing has increased in the last few days after Moscow took the last big city in the adjacent Luhanansk province, said Lyakh.
It is important to evacuate as many people as possible,” he warned Tuesday morning, adding that the shooting damaged 40 houses on Monday.
The Ukraine military withdrew its troops on Sunday from the city of Lysychansk to keep them from surrounded. Russian Defense Minister and Putin said the arrest of the next city placed Moscow in the control of all Luhanansk, one of the two provinces that formed Donbas.
The Ukraine President’s Office said the Ukraine military still defended a small portion of Luhanansk and tried to buy time to determine the position fortified in the nearest area.
The question now is whether Russia can gather sufficient strength to complete the confiscation of Donbas by taking Donetsk Province as well. Putin admitted Monday that Russian troops who fought in Luhanansk needed to “rest and improve their combat capabilities.”
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that the war in Ukraine would continue until all the goals set by Putin were achieved. However, Shoigu said the “top priority” for Moscow at this time was “maintaining life and health” of troops, as well as “not a threat to the safety of civilians.”
When Putin ordered the Ukraine invasion on February 24, the goal was declared to defend the donbas against the alleged Kyiv aggression, and “Demiliterization” and “Denazifaction” from Ukraine.
Pro-Russian separatists have fought Ukraine forces and controlled many donbas for eight years. Before the invasion, Putin acknowledged the independence of a pair of separatist republics who proclaimed themselves in the region. He also tried to describe the tactics of Ukrainian troops and the government as similar to Nazi Germany, claims that no evidence had emerged.
Ukraine military general staff said Russian troops also fired on several cities and villages -Donetsk villages around Sloviansk on the last day but were rejected when they tried to advance to a city about 20 kilometers (12 miles) in the north of the city. In the south of the city, Russian troops tried to push towards two more cities and regional shooting near Kramatorsk.
Meanwhile, officials installed by Moscow in the South Kheerson area of Ukraine on Tuesday announced the formation of a new regional government there, with former Russian officials at the top leadership.
Sergei Yeleseyev, head of government supported by the new Moscow in Kherson, is a former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia’s Western Exclave in Kaliningrad and also works on Russian Federal Security Services, or FSB, according to media reports.
It is not clear what will happen with the “military administration” that Kremlin previously installed. The head of the government, Vladimir Balance said in a telegram statement that the new government was “not temporary, not a military, not a kind of temporary administration, but the right government agency.”
