The death toll for civilians who lost their lives due to the Russia-Ukraine war has gone over 5,000 as a recent Moscow missile attack killed roughly 43 people in Chasiv Yar in Donetsk.
The tragic news comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Europe should prepare for its gas supply from Russia to be cut off as his armed forces try to repel Moscow's attacks to the northeast and east of his country.
Civilian Death Toll
Zelensky warned Europe over energy supplies after Russia decided to suspend gas deliveries to Germany via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline for annual summer maintenance. The planned maintenance of the pipeline has stoked fears that Moscow could lengthen the work and further delay gas supplies across Germany.
Following the attack in Chasiv Yar, Ukrainian authorities conducted search and rescue to find the civilians affected by the attack on a residential building in the city. Zelensky also rebutted claims that Russia has been taking an "operational pause" in the past week, arguing that from Ukraine's perspective, hostilities have continued as before, and its forces are "repelling assaults in various directions," as per CNBC.
The situation comes as the Kremlin announces that Putin will visit Iran next week for a Syria summit with his Iranian counterpart, President Ebrahim Raisi, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Furthermore, during a Ukrainian air raid on Nova Kakhovka, a city in the Russian-occupied Kherson region, at least seven people were killed, and 60 were injured. Officials claimed that their troops were able to destroy an ammunition depot in the city.
According to Aljazeera, Ukraine's infrastructure ministry also said in a statement that 16 ships passed through the Danube's newly-reopened Bystre river mount in the last four days. They added that the opening up of the Bystre was a crucial step towards speeding up grain exports.
Russia-Ukraine War
Furthermore, Ukraine has been negotiating with Romanian colleagues and European Commission representatives about increasing crossings through the Sulina canal. In a statement, the deputy infrastructure minister, Yuriy Vaskov, said that under such conditions and with access to the Bystre route, the congestion could be cleared within a week.
Following the attack on Chasiv Yar, Ukrainian authorities cleared more than 420 tons of rubble and rescued nine people from under the ruins. The chief of staff to Zelensky, Andriy Yermak, said on Sunday that the attack was "another terrorist attack" and argued that Russia should be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism as a result.
On the other hand, Russian authorities have continued to deny deliberately targeting civilians in its war against Ukraine on Monday, saying that it had "destroyed the temporary deployment point" of a Ukrainian territorial defense unit in Chasiv Yar, US News reported.
The fighting continues as Russia announced that it would be deepening its defense cooperation with Myanmar after a meeting in Moscow with the latter's military leader, Min Aung Hlaing. In a statement, Russia's Defense Ministry said the meeting took place on Monday and noted that Hlaing was in Russia on a private visit.
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