Russia beat Kyiv with rockets and drones overnight and killed at least 12 people this year in the greatest attack on the Ukrainian capital and drew a rare complaint on social media on social media on social media that was directed towards Russian President Vladimir Putin: “Vladimir, stop!”
The attack – of which the US President said was “not necessary” and “very bad timing” when his government tries to convey a peace agreement between the two sides – also wounded 90 people, smashed buildings and triggered fire, said Ukrainian officials.
The rescuers recovered corpses from the rubble more than 12 hours later.
The most serious incident was in the district of Sviatoshynskyi west of the city center, where the rescuers continued to clear the rubble from two buildings, said the Mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko.
Tymur Tkachenko, the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, updated an earlier number of fatalities: “Savior has called up two other bodies under the ruins in the Sviatoshynskyi district. We now have 12 deaths.”
Images in the telegram showed that rescue teams worked with floodlights and carefully moved through rubble and extended the ladders over the facades of buildings. The police called from the apartment to the apartment to determine whether the residents were safe.
The resident of the apartment speaks of terror
Rescue teams worked at 13 locations in Kyiv with climbing specialists and sniffers, the emergency services said. Forty fire had broken out.
“Mobile phones are ringing under ruins. The search continues until it becomes clear that they all have,” it said.
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Fires had broken out in garages, administration buildings and falling metal fragments had hit vehicles.
An air raid warning was six hours in the capital.
“There was the air raid siren, we didn’t even have time to dress to leave the apartment. An explosion came after the other, all windows were blown out, doors, walls, my husband and my son were thrown on the other side,” said Viktoria Bakal, who lives in Kyiv and described the attack.
Russia started 145 drones and 70 rockets, including 11 ballistic rockets, in the overnight attack, the Air Force of Ukraine announced in the telegram. Air Force units have shot down 112 destinations.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said that in addition to Kyiv and the surrounding region, seven other regions were attacked under “masses”.
Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, had waves of Russian rockets and drones overnight, Mayor Ihor Terekhov wrote about telegram.
Terekhov said the city in the northeast of Ukraine was attacked 14 times with drones and ten times with rockets. Multi -story residential buildings, a city poly clinic, a school building, private yards, industrial companies and a hotel complex have been damaged and one person was taken to the hospital, he said.
In the Zhytomyr region, west of Kyiv, there were also damage where emergency services said that the Russian armed forces had started a repeat strike against rescue teams who took part in a fire and injured a worker.
In the industrial city of Pavlohrad, which is located in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, 14 multi -storey buildings were damaged, mainly in their windows and balconies, said the regional governor Serhiy Lysak on Telegram and added that nobody was injured in the attack.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that there was a massive strike overnight against the military-industrial complex of Ukrainian military complexes with air, land and marine base long-distance weapons and drones.
Diplomatic tensions
The attacks came to a critical moment in Russia’s war in Ukraine, which began with the full invasion of Moscow in 2022, with both Kyiv and Moscow of Trump under pressure to show progress in the direction of a peace agreement.
Trump and his government have threatened to move away from the efforts, to convey a ceasefire if there are no progress, so that the European nations are looking for opportunities to support Kyiv.
Talks with the officials of the United States, Ukraine and the European Officials to discuss the end of Russia in Ukraine have stalled when US Secretary of State Marco Rubio canceled his trip to London and the negotiations were downgraded.
According to a joint explanation from Great Britain, France and Germany in London, to achieve a deal to achieve a deal in order to achieve a “common position in the next steps”, he became a “common position in the next steps”. However, the talks were downgraded at the last minute after a last decision by the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed to the talks in London on Wednesday, although it was not “simple” but was “constructive”. He made the remark at a joint press conference in South Africa next to President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Trump seemed to blame Zelenskyy on Wednesday for a lack of progress after he would not recognize Russia’s crew of the Crimean peninsula, which annexed it in 2014 from Ukraine as part of a peace agreement.
Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that the recognition of the Crimea as part of Russia would violate the constitution of Ukraine. Ukraine says it is looking for a complete and unconditional ceasefire.
Russia also accused Zelenskyy of destroying diplomacy to achieve a peace agreement after refusing this week to recognize the Annexion of Russia to the Crimea.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, said reporters in Russia on Thursday that it became clearer in the minute that Zelenskyy had the ability to negotiate a deal to terminate the war.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said about X that the “brutal strikes” in Kyiv showed that Russia, not Ukraine, was the obstacle to peace.
