LONDON (Reuters) – British navy intelligence stated on Sunday that Russian forces had been targeting populated areas in Ukraine however that the power of resistance was slowing the Russian advance.
“The scale and power of Ukrainian resistance proceed to shock Russia,” British navy intelligence stated in an replace. Russia “has responded by targeting populated areas in a number of places, together with Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Mariupol.”
“Russia has beforehand used comparable ways in Chechnya in 1999 and Syria in 2016, using each air and ground-based munitions,” British navy intelligence stated.
Russia has repeatedly denied that it’s targeting civilian areas.
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Kim Coghill)