At least 7 people were injured today as a result of a new Russian missile attack in the regions of Kharkiv and Odessa | In the world

At least 7 people were injured today as a result of a new Russian missile attack in the regions of Kharkiv and Odessa – the Ukrainian authorities announced. Being in Odessa, the RRA special envoy Alex Buzică tried to find out if the port city could be besieged on land by Russian troops and spoke with the Ukrainian journalist Anna Neplii, who has Romanian origins: “Since the year 2024 began very many analysts wonder if the city of Odessa will be able to be conquered, as the president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, has said many times. I talked about the subject with Anna Neplii, analyst and journalist at the Kyiv Post.

Anna Neplii: “The army of the Russian Federation does not yet have the strength to occupy Odessa. Consider Avdiivka, for example, a not very large town with about 300 houses. We had very big battles with the Russians there for a year until they captured it, I think the army of the Russian Federation will not be able to occupy a city with 1,000,000 inhabitants, such as Odessa, but they can occupy it in another way, which is less and less talked about.

Hypothetically speaking, maybe in the future treaties will be made between Ukraine and Russia by which we will be forced to give up some cities, to blackmail us in some way specifically Russians. Unfortunately, we receive help, but only for defense, not to liberate the occupied territories.” “

Also today, Ukraine claimed drone attacks on energy infrastructure in the Russian region of Smolensk, about 400 km from its border. This claim comes amid tensions with Washington, which has publicly criticized these Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory. The Kremlin warned today that if Ukraine receives longer-range missiles from the United States, the Russian military will have to push Ukrainian forces westward to expand what it called a ‘buffer zone’ inside Ukraine./editor Florin let go/