Russia attacked kyiv with a flood of hours of missile and drone hours during the night, killing at least Elect and wounding more than 70 in their most fatal assault to the Ukrainian capital since last July. He arrived when peace conversations seemed to stop.
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said after the attack that he was shortening his official trip to South Africa and returning home when kyiv recovered from the bombing that keeps residents to the limit for approximately 11 hours. Zenskyy described the strike as “one of (Russia) more scandalous.”
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The mayor of kyiv, Vitalii Klitschko, announced that Friday would be an official day of mourning in the capital.
The Ukraine Air Force said Russia triggered 66 ballistic and cruise missiles, four air to surface air missiles launched by plane, and 145 Shahed and Lure Gifts in kyiv and four other Ucrine regions.
Rescue workers with flashlights toured the debris loaded with partially collapsed houses while the blue lights of emergency vehicles illuminated the dark streets of the city.
The attack, which begged around 1 in the morning, hit at least five neighborhoods in kyiv.
Russia said he was pointing to the Ukraine defense industry, including the plants that produced “rocket and gunpowder fuel” in the strikes, the AFP French news agency reported.
Kyiv Mayor, Vitali Klitschko, told Reuters that eight people had been confirmed in the capital. The authorities had said before nine were killed.
The attack occurred as the weeks of peace negotiations seemed to be culminating without an agreement to the view and hours after the president Trump lashed out against Zenskyyaccusing him of prolonging the “murder field” by refusing to deliver the Crimea Peninsula occupied by Russia as part of a possible agreement despite the fact that, Crimea had “lost a year ago.”
“This corresponds completely to our understanding, which they say that leg for a long time,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, to journalists on Thursday, according to the AFP.
Zenskyy has many times the duration The war of more than three years That recognition of occupied territory as Russian is a red line for your country. He pointed out on Thursday that Ukraine had accepted a proposal of Alto El Fuego de USA. UU. 44 days ago, as a first step for a negotiated peace, but that Russia’s attacks had continued.
He said in South Africa that the last attack meant that the future of negotiations “depends on Russia’s intention because it is in Moscow where they have to make a decision.”
While the conversations have been happening in the last week, Russia has arrived in the city of Sumy, killing more than 30 civilians gathered to celebrate Ramos Sunday, Odessa mistreated with donuts and criticized Zaporizhia with powerful sliding bombs.
The head of foreign policy of the European Union, Kaja Kallas, said that the last attack stressed that the main obstacle to ending war is Russia.
“While he claimed to seek peace, Russia launched a deadly air attack on kyiv,” he wrote on social networks. “This is not a search for peace, it is a mockery of it.”
High American officials have warned that the Trump administration could soon give up their efforts to stop the war if the two parties do not compromise.
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The Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Andrii Sybiha, said the attack showed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined to press the advantage of his largest army in the front line of approximately 620 miles, where he currently has the impulse.
“Putin demonstrates through his actions, no words, that he does not respect any peace effort and only cup to continue war,” Sybiha said about X. “Weakness and concessions will not stop their terror and aggression. Only strength and pressure will do it.”
According to the Reuters news agency, the wife of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said Thursday that Zenskyy was refusing to make any concession in peace conversations and would only be a high fire in her own terms.
The Ukrainian prime minister, Denys, Shmyhal, said that since the large -scale invasion of Russia of his neighbor, Russian attacks have killed some 13,000 civilians, including 618 children.
In a kyiv residential building that was almost completely destroyed Thorsday, the emergency workers took away the debris with their hands, rescuing a trapped woman who came out of the remains covered with white dust and groaning pain.
An old woman sat against a brick wall, stained with blood, her eyes fixed on the ground in shock while the doctors attended her wounds.
Fires were reported in several residential buildings, Tkachenko, head of the city’s military administration said.
Oksana Bilozir, a student, suffered a head injury in the attack. With blood from his bandada, he said that Shear a strong explosion after the air alarm sounded and began grabbing his things to a shelter when another explosion caused the walls of his home to crumble and the lights shoot.
“Honestly, I don’t know how everything will end, it’s very scary,” Bilozir said, referring to the war against Russia’s invasion. “I only think that if we can stop them on the battlefield, then that’s all. No diplomacy works here.”
The attack kept many people wake up all night while multiple strong explosions reverge around the city and the flashes of light scored the sky. Families gathered in Air Raid public shelters, some of them bringing their pets.
Anastasiia Zhuravlova, 33, mother of two children, was taking refuge in a basement after multiple explosions damaged her home. His family slept when the first explosion shattered its windows and sent kitchen appliances flying in the air. The glass fragments rained on the hurried theme to cover themselves in the corridor.
“After that we arrived at the shelter because it was scary and dangerous at home,” he said.
