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Against the background of Sweden and Finland's invitation to NATO: Russia intensifies attacks in Ukraine | Israel Today

2022-06-30T08:28:25.530Z


The governor of the Lisichensk region said that "the fighting is going on all the time, there is no relaxation" • The Kremlin is not sitting idly by:


Despite Western political success during the NATO summit in Madrid and marking the Kremlin as a "direct threat," the Russian military has in recent hours intensified shelling in eastern Ukraine, which is now focused around the city of Lisichensk and where authorities say there are 15,000 residents under fire.

"The fighting continues all the time. The Russians are constantly on the offensive, there is no relaxation," area governor Sri Gaidai told local television this morning (Thursday).

It is also reported from the front that the Russian army has also seized the city's refinery, including all access routes to the site, as part of a larger maneuver aimed at the total occupation of the Donbas region.

The city of Lisichensk after an attack by the Russian army, last month, Photo: AFP


At the same time as the attacks in Ukraine continue, the Kremlin is not sitting idly by: Russian President Vladimir Putin responded that Sweden and Finland were officially invited yesterday to join NATO's defense alliance. "We do not have the same problems we have with Ukraine.

If they want to join NATO, go ahead, the Russian president said in an interview with state television after meeting with regional leaders in Turkmenistan, Putin's first visit since the start of the war.

"But they must understand that there has been no threat in the past, while now, if military forces and infrastructure are deployed there, we will have to respond and create the same threats to the territories from which threats are created against us," he clarified.

NATO yesterday invited the two Nordic countries to join the alliance, following the removal of the Turkish veto as part of a comprehensive agreement between Ankara, Stockholm and Helsinki over the extradition of Kurdish activists. .

A woman walks in the ruins of the Ukrainian city of Lisichensk after an attack by the Russian army, last month, Photo: AFP

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