Russia-Ukraine war live: Putin’s forces ‘fire over 800 glide bombs’ in a week and repeatedly hit own territory
Ukraine says the only way to effectively counter Russia’s glide bomb threat is with US-made F-16 fighter jets
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Russian forces have used more than 800 glide bombs in the past week to hit Ukraine, president Volodymyr Zelensky said last night.
Ukraine’s war-time president shared photos of the Russian strikes on the besieged country’s cities of Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Odesa, Sumy, Kherson, Donetsk and Kharkiv.
“This week alone, Russia has used more than 800 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine. Against our cities and communities, against our people, against everything that makes life normal,” he said on X, formerly Twitter.
He said this after Russia struck Ukraine’s two largest cities yesterday, with missile fragments falling on a suburban Kyiv apartment building and a guided bomb killing one person in Kharkiv. An eight-month-old infant was injured in the bombing in Kharkiv, officials said.
It comes as at least 38 of the bombs, which have been credited with helping Russia regain the initiative on the frontline, reportedly dropped onto Russian territory by accident, according to a leaked internal Russian document.
The document suggested that between April 2023 and April 2024, more than three dozen of the bombs fell from the fighter jets carrying them.
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Belarus, a close Russian ally that has provided support for Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine, said last week that Kyiv was bolstering its forces along the countries’ shared border. The Kremlin on Monday said the report was a cause of concern.
“It is not the first time Belarus offers information about Ukraine presenting a threat and strengthening itself... This is another part of the information operation conducted by Belarus with support by Russia,” border guard spokesman Andriy Demchenko told Ukrainian national TV.
The border area with Belarus remains “threatening” and Ukraine maintains the necessary number of forces there to prevent any provocations, he added.
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Russia maintained a military presence across the border from Ukraine‘s northern Chernihiv and Sumy regions, the military said, adding that Moscow’s forces were increasing the density of minefields in the area and also conducting sabotage activities.
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