Ukraine announced on Sunday that it was seeking more European Union sanctions on Russia as well as more military assistance from its allies after Russian soldiers attacked an airport and other facilities in the country’s east.
Since its invasion on Feb. 24, Russia has failed to conquer any major cities. However, Ukraine claims Moscow has been assembling forces in the east in preparation for a major attack and has urged residents to escape.
Officials say Russian forces fired rockets into Ukraine’s Luhansk and Dnipro regions on Sunday. The airport in Dnipro was entirely destroyed by missiles, according to Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the central Dnipropetrovsk district.
According to Mykola Lukashuk, the leader of the Dnipro area council, the strike injured five members of Ukraine’s state emergency service.
The headquarters of Ukraine’s Dnipro battalion in the village of Zvonetsky was destroyed by high-precision missiles, according to Russia’s defence ministry.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Twitter that he had spoken with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz over the phone regarding more penalties as well as increased defensive and financial help for his country. According to his office, Zelensky also discussed with Ukrainian officials Kyiv’s request for a new package of EU penalties.
Zelensky reaffirmed his call for a comprehensive ban on Russian energy supplies and more armaments for Ukraine in a video speech late Saturday.
The EU prohibited Russian coal imports, among other things, on Friday, while oil and gas supplies from Russia remain unaffected.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians were unable to flee several cities in the east due to severe shelling.
Ukrainian officials increased their calls for citizens to flee after a missile strike hit a train station in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, on Friday, which was packed with people trying to flee.
More than 50 people were slain, according to Ukrainian officials. Russia has denied culpability for the attack, claiming that the missiles deployed were exclusively utilised by Ukraine’s military.
On Sunday, residents of the Luhansk area would be able to board nine trains, according to the territory’s governor, Serhiy Gaidai, who wrote on the Telegram messaging service.
