Ukraine warned that Putin’s troops are concentrating their attacks on food and fuel warehouses

The adviser to the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior, Vadim Denisenko, indicated that a new strategy of the Russian Army involves the destruction of food and oil warehouses in the country, as a series of similar attacks that have occurred in recent days seem to indicate.

“Russia has started destroying oil deposits and food stores. In recent days, they have destroyed oil deposits in Kalinovka and food deposits in Severodonetsk,” the Ukrainian official said.

This shows that “Ukraine needs to understand the Russian strategy” and that will be “the task of the coming weeks”, according to an interview collected by RBC-Ukraine.

Thus, the minister declared that the response plan involves the redistribution, “as much as possible”, of food from warehouses, as well as fuel, to a kind of “mobile warehouses” that are more difficult to attack.

“It is going to be difficult and the regions are going to have to make a great effort, but we have no other option because (the Russians) are beginning to attack both food deposits and oil and derivatives deposits,” he said.

For their part, the Ukrainian authorities pointed out that Russian attacks have already affected a total of 59 places of worship since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24.

The damage is focused on buildings belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which depends on Moscow and has a special presence in the east of the country, according to the list published by the State Service for the Policy of Nationality and Freedom of Conscience.

The agency has included damage to a Catholic church, five Protestant churches, three mosques and three synagogues, as well as damage to the Drobitsky Yar, a memorial to Holocaust victims located in Kharkiv.

The monument, a seven-branched Jewish chandelier or menorah, has been hit by a Russian shell, according to the KharkivToday news portal on Saturday. Two of the seven arms of the monument have been damaged.

The monument remembers the between 6,000 and 20,000 Jews and Soviet prisoners murdered outside Kharkiv during the Nazi occupation (1941-42).

The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a Ukrainian missile depot near Kyiv with long-range weapons launched from the sea, the Defense Ministry reported today, which also reported the elimination of a fuel base and a radio repair shop. in yesterday’s attacks on Lviv.

Military department spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in the morning military report that the missile depot for S-300 and Buk anti-aircraft missile systems was destroyed in the town of Plesetskoye, 30 kilometres southwest of the capital.

In addition, he confirmed that on Saturday the Russian Army attacked with long-range missiles in Lviv a large fuel base, which supplied the Ukrainian troops in the western regions and those deployed near Kyiv.

“In addition, high-precision cruise missiles destroyed the workshops of the Lviv radio repair plant,” it said.

Meanwhile, almost 1,100 Ukrainian civilians have been killed and 1,754 wounded since the beginning of the invasion, according to the latest updated balance sheet from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, published this Saturday.

“From 4 a.m. on February 24, when the armed attack by the Russian Federation against Ukraine began, until 12 a.m. on March 25, the High Commissioner has recorded 1,104 deaths and 1,754 injuries,” according to the report.

The deceased have been identified as 221 men, 167 women, 30 boys and 15 girls, as well as 51 children and 1,288 adults pending identification. The injured have been identified as 194 men, 148 women, 30 girls and 24 boys, as well as 70 children and 1,288 adults pending identification.