Ukrainian authorities said Sunday that Russian forces are engaged in all kinds of robberies of the civilian population in the areas they control in Ukraine, such as in Kakhovka, where they are allegedly stealing even bicycles.
«They are stealing people’s private cars, their motorcycles and even bicycles,» the Ukrainian General Staff has assured in a new statement. This kind of behavior is usually an indication of an imminent withdrawal of Russian troops, Kiev has assured.
When the Russians withdrew a few weeks ago from Izium, in the Kharkov region, they had already taken away civilians’ bicycles because they had run out of fuel for their vehicles.
On the other hand, the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, has denounced in a new message published on social networks that Russia has launched some 4,700 missiles against Ukrainian targets.
«Hundreds of our citizens have been burned. Thousands of people have been killed. Hundreds of thousands have been deported to Russia,» Zelenski has stated during his speech to the meeting of the International Organization of La Francophonie held in Djerba, Tunisia.
«And millions of people have had to leave Ukraine for other countries seeking refuge from the war,» Zelenski added in his message.
Thus he has assured that only last Tuesday Russia launched almost a hundred missiles against Ukrainian soil. «A hundred different missiles against our cities, residential buildings, enterprises, power plants,» he pointed out. The result is that some 20 million people have been left without electricity.
Zelenski has appealed for help from the countries of the Francophonie. «Ukraine really wants peace, but to restore peace we need support,» he argued. The president asserted that peace is possible, «but it is possible if everyone understands that no one deserves a single day of terror», he reiterated.
