At least nine people have been killed and 124 others have been injured in a sudden Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, including a six-year-old boy, according to Ukrainian authorities.
According to city military commander Tymur Tkachenko, the Russian barrage damaged 27 buildings in Kyiv’s four districts on Thursday. People who had been buried beneath the rubble were being found by rescue teams.
Russia’s most recent deadly attack on Ukraine came after President Trump gave Moscow a 10- or 12-day ultimatum on Monday to end its fourth-year Ukrainian invasion or face sanctions.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, claimed on Thursday that Russia carried out the attack using more than 300 drones and eight missiles after posting a video of the ruins burning on social media.
Russia’s response to our desire for peace, shared with America and Europe, was once again seen in the world, Zelenskyy wrote. Without strength, peace is impossible, because of this. However, our partners have all the resources to force Moscow to negotiate and to force them to do so.
Andrii Sybiha, the foreign minister, described the day as “horrible morning in Kyiv.”
According to Sybiha, “the brutal Russian strikes damaged schools and hospitals and destroyed entire residential structures.”
According to Charles Stratford, a reporter for Al Jazeera from Kyiv, “this is unquestionably one of the largest attacks we’ve seen in recent weeks,” according to the report.
He claimed that “a large residential area with box flats all around” was struck, adding that “the majority of the windows in those flats have been blown out.”
The power of this attack was so great that people were flung out of their apartment buildings, said interior minister Ihor Klymenko.
One of the damaged buildings’ residents, Yana Zhabborova, heard the explosions, which blew off the windows and doors of her home.
Zhabborova, a 35-year-old mother of a 5-year-old and a 5-month-old, said, “It is just stress and shock that there is nothing left.”
The attack targeted and hit Ukrainian airfields, ammunition depots, and businesses connected to what the government of Kyiv called the military-industrial complex, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
Later, the Ukrainian air force claimed that 288 of the 309 drones used in the attack and three of the eight missiles were intercepted and jammed by its air defenses.
According to Governor Oleg Melnichenko and a SBU official, Ukrainian drones later struck an electronics factory in Penza, western Russia. The factory, which produces combat control systems for the Russian military, reportedly caught fire, according to the official. Melnichenko confirmed that the structure had caught fire.
According to Russian Railways, the state rail operator, drone wreckage also caused some trains to stop in the Volgograd region.
The Ministry of Defense of Russia reported on Thursday that it had overnight shot down 32 Ukrainian drones.
Russia claimed to have taken control of Chasiv Yar, a strategically important military base for Ukrainian forces in the east.
According to a statement from Russia’s Defense Ministry, the Donetsk region town “was liberated by Russian forces.” Regarding the alleged retreat, Ukraine has not made any comments.
The town’s capture, which had been the site of months of fighting, would be Russia’s most recent locality to fall under its incremental but steady territorial expansion, if confirmed.
The fall of the hilltop town now allows Russian forces to advance on the country’s last remaining civilian strongholds in Donetsk, including the garrison cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, which are significant logistical centers for the Ukrainian military and are home to a large number of civilians who have, up until now, not fled the fighting.
The Kremlin has made the Donetsk region’s occupation a top military priority, and it has claimed that Russia’s industrial region is a part of it as far back as 2022.
Since the start of its invasion, Kyiv has been attempting to stop Russia’s summer offensive, which has advanced into regions on the eastern front line largely spared.
Following a Russian attack on a military training camp on Thursday that left at least three Ukrainian soldiers dead.
Following the strikes on Thursday, Sybiha demanded that Moscow put the most pressure on Moscow to end the conflict it started in February 2022.
According to Sybiha, “President Trump has been very generous and patient with Putin, trying to find a solution.”
However, according to Sybiha, Russian President Vladimir Putin “does not care about any attempts to put an end to the killing.” He only aims to kill and destroy. Because this war criminal’s entire existence is based on this pointless conflict, which he cannot win but refuses to end.
Source: Aljazeera
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