After Massive Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital, Kiev last night, “our emergency services were working at the scene of the Russian attack. A malicious attack.” So on X the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskywhich accused Russia of launching “some 430 drones and 18 missiles
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“We know about dozens of people were injuredeven children and pregnant women. Sadly four people died“, he added, further renewing his assessment of what he defined as a “deliberately calculated attack” with the aim of “causing as much damage as possible to society and civil infrastructure”.
“Only in Kyiv dozens of residential buildings were damaged” and “The Embassy of Azerbaijan was hit by Iskander missile fragments,” Zelensky continued.
The main targets of the attack were the capital Kiev and othersattacks also hit the Kiev, Kharkiv and Odessa regions“, added the Ukrainian leader, reporting initial reports that “Russia is using a Zircon missiles this morning against the Sumy region“.
“This is ongoing – added Zelensky – a good cooperation with partners to strengthen our air defense, but it is not enough. We need reinforcements with additional systems and interceptor missiles. Europe and America can help. We rely on real decisions.”
“Ukraine is responding to these attacks with long-term force and the world must stop these attacks on life with sanctions,” he stressed. “Russia is still able to sell oil – he stressed – All this must stop.”
“Unprecedented explosion”
“Russia is attacking the population of Ukraine with an unprecedented barrage of missiles and drones, deliberately striking ordinary homes, hospitals, energy sector facilities and civilian infrastructure” and “the world must act”, as he wrote meanwhile in Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yulia Svyrydenkowhich stressed that “Ukraine needs air defense and decisive steps to increase pressure on aggressors” and “the long-awaited decision on freezing Russian assets must be taken without delay.” “This is a strategic necessity” and an “urgent truth”, he underlined, condemning how the Kiev, Sumy, Kharkiv, Odessa, Kirovohrad regions and other regions of the country have been targeted in recent hours. “Around 30 residential buildings were destroyed in the capital,” he explained.
The Prime Minister confirmed the latest toll which put at least four dead and 26 injured and wrote of “sleeping families” who had to face “terror from the sky”. “Justice will come. For every life destroyed, for every home destroyed – he concluded – The world must act”.
