HOW DARE THEY BOMB US!
MOSCOW howled with outrage yesterday after claiming Ukrainian pilots had bombed one of its oil depots in Russia.
Footage showed two helicopters hitting a storage facility in Belogrod with S-8 rockets, triggering a huge blaze and injuring two workers.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s henchmen insisted Ukraine was responsible and threatened to walk out of peace talks — despite continuing to kill Ukrainian women and children in indiscriminate attacks.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “This is not something that can be perceived as creating comfortable conditions for the continuation of negotiations.”
But Ukraine said Russian claims it was responsible for the strike “did not correspond to reality”.
It was the first successful airstrike on Russian soil since World War Two.
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And the massive humiliation for Moscow came as Mad Vlad’s troops fled from key Ukrainian cities.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that although Russia is still yet to capture a major city after five weeks of war, the country faces “battles ahead”.
He said: “We still need to go down a very difficult path to get everything we want.”
Ukraine has retaken the villages of Sloboda and Lukashivka on the main supply routes between Chernihiv and Kyiv.
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And Russian troops left the heavily contaminated Chernobyl nuclear site early after returning control to the Ukrainians.
State power company Energoatom said the U-turn came after soldiers received “significant doses” of radiation from digging trenches in the forest in the exclusion zone around the closed plant.
In further signs of hope for the people of Ukraine, the alcohol ban in Kyiv was partially lifted by Mayor Vitali Klitschko yesterday.
In the southern port of Odessa, The Sun witnessed the reopening of bars and clubs where live music returned to the city after weeks of living under the threat of a Russian attack.
People downed shots while toasting “Slava Ukraini” — Glory to Ukraine — as large groups partied in a spectacular signal that they would not be broken.
In Odessa’s More Music Bar, local pin-up Valari, lead singer of The Cutes band was on stage on Thursday night.
With the national flag pinned behind the stage, he said: “This is a f*** you to Vladimir Putin. You won’t destroy us and you won’t destroy Ukraine.
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The change of mood came as a new round of talks was scheduled after five weeks of conflict that has left thousands dead and driven four million from their homes.
Ukrainian deputy health minister Oleksii Laremenko said Russian forces were continuing to target residential areas, hospitals and social infrastructures across the war-torn country.
But the White House said that the war in Ukraine has been a “strategic disaster for Russia” and a “strategic failure for Putin”.
Meanwhile, it has emerged that Britain is planning to supply Ukraine with “kamikaze” drones as the West steps up its military support.
The UK is also to send single-use “loiter” weapons similar to the US Switchblade UAV.
Anti-aircraft and anti-ship systems to target ships in the Black Sea could also be sent.
Elsewhere, Mr Zelensky has fired two senior officials, branding them traitors in a rare show of dissent among the ranks in Ukraine.
He accused the two generals, who worked for the national security service, of failing in their duty to protect the country.
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He said: “Regarding antiheroes. Now, I do not have time to deal with all the traitors. But gradually they will all be punished.”
It came as it was revealed that there had been an exchange of captured troops, with Ukraine saying it had regained 86, including 15 women.
Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said the troops are “already being taken home”.
She said: “I would like to address all our [people] who are still being held prisoner: We will fight for each of you. And will bring you home. Stay strong.”
Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Cross said it had been forced to postpone an attempt to evacuate civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol.
It said: “The ICRC team that had been on its way to Mariupol on Friday to facilitate the safe passage of civilians had to return to Zaporizhzhia after arrangements and conditions made it impossible to proceed.”
Elsewhere it was claimed that China launched a cyberattack on Ukraine’s military and nuclear facilities just before the invasion.
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More than 600 websites suffered thousands of hacking attempts co-ordinated by the Chinese government, according to Ukraine’s security service, the SBU.
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