Russian forces launched multiple missile strikes early Friday on multiple targets across Ukraine, causing significant damage in and around the central city of Dnipro, and also attacked air bases in the far west of the country that had previously escaped conflict.
The airport in Lutsk in northwestern Ukraine, about 70 miles from the Polish border, was heavily damaged. The governor of the Volyn region said four missiles were fired from a Russian bomber and two people were killed. Plumes of smoke also rose from a military airfield in Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine, which was hit by missiles.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday: “High-precision long-range weapons attacked Ukraine’s military infrastructure.
Military airfields in Lutsk and Ivano-Frankovsk were taken out of action.”
closer to KyivFighting has intensified in the northeast and east of the capital after Ukrainians successfully intercepted and attacked a advancing column of Russian tanks on Thursday. That front is still very active.
According to Kiev officials, there were no casualties in an overnight airstrike in the Brovry district, east of Kyiv.
Ukrainian officials also reported an overnight missile strike in the town of Baryshevka, about 45 miles east of the capital. According to officials, 60 apartments were damaged along with four apartment buildings and 10 houses.
Russian column Maxar, which had been sitting outside Kyiv for nearly two weeks, has now dispersed, according to satellite imagery from Thursday. The forces seem to be regrouping.
Jens’ senior analyst Thomas Bullock told CNN that, “The strategy of targeting Ukraine’s supply lines worked particularly well during the first 5-10 days of the war. This is partly due to the Ukrainian strategy.” And was partly down to Russia’s operations.”
He said, “During the first few days of the war, Russian forces preferred to move quickly to achieve rapid targets. This meant that they continued to secure the area as a coherent front line. were not growing,” he said.
“This effectively allowed Ukrainian forces to slip behind Russia’s advanced mechanized units and attack logistics columns traveling on the unprotected roads of the rear.
“It is unclear how effective this strategy will be as Russia begins to realign its forces for a long war after their failure to secure a quick victory,” Bullock said.