Russia’s nuclear forces are holding drills within the Ivanovo province, northeast of Moscow, the Interfax information company cited the Russian defence ministry as saying. Some 1,000 servicemen are exercising in intense manoeuvres utilizing over 100 automobiles together with Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launchers, it cited the ministry as saying.
In the meantime, a Russian airstrike on Sievierodonetsk hit a tank of nitric acid at a chemical manufacturing unit, inflicting an enormous leak of fumes, in keeping with Serhiy Haidai, governor of the Luhansk area. He posted an image of an enormous cloud hanging over town and urged residents to remain inside and put on fuel masks or improvised ones.
No less than three folks have been killed and 6 wounded in a single day in a Russian missile strike on town of Sloviansk, west of Sievierodonetsk, Donetsk Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko stated in a Fb publish. A faculty was amongst a number of buildings broken. A crater was blasted within the street between two residence buildings closely pockmarked by shrapnel.