The Group of Seven industrial powers scheduled a video conference Tuesday on the situation, which Zelenskyy will address. The attacks prompted fresh international condemnation of Russia. Three cruise missiles launched against Ukraine from Russian ships in the Black Sea crossed Moldova’s airspace, said the country’s foreign affairs minister, Nicu Popescu. Energy infrastructure was also hit in Lviv, regional Gov. The strikes knocked out the electricity and water supply.
Kharkiv was hit three times, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. I immediately called my kids to see how they are because anyone can be hit - women, children,” she said. Natalia Nesterenko, a mathematician, saw one missile fly by her Dnipro apartment balcony as she was in her kitchen, then she heard two explosions. Witnesses said one missile landed in front of a bus, damaging the vehicle but not killing any passengers. Four people were killed and 19 injured in the city, officials said.
The mayor posted a video later while walking on the bridge, pointing out a crater on a sidewalk below and broken glass and missile fragments on the bridge surface.Īir raid sirens sounded in every region of Ukraine except Russia-annexed Crimea for four straight hours.Īssociated Press journalists saw bodies at an industrial site on the outskirts of Dnipro. Video footage showed a huge explosion under the bridge, with smoke rising, and a man running away, apparently unhurt. Moscow’s war in Ukraine is approaching its eight-month mark, and the Kremlin has been reeling from humiliating battlefield setbacks in areas of eastern Ukraine it is trying to annex.Īnother target was the Klitschko pedestrian bridge - a central Kyiv landmark with glass panels. Zelenskyy has repeatedly called on world leaders to declare Russia a terrorist state because of its attacks on civilians and alleged war crimes. But in Monday’s speech, Putin - whose partial troop mobilization order last month triggered an exodus of hundreds of thousands of men of fighting age - stopped short of escalating his “special military operation” to a counterterrorism campaign or martial law. Putin’s increasingly frequent descriptions of Ukraine’s actions as terrorist could portend even more bold and draconian actions. The Russian president has been under intense domestic pressure to take more aggressive action to stop a largely successful Ukrainian counteroffensive and to react forcefully to Saturday’s attack on the Kerch bridge, whose construction he used to cement his 2014 annexation of Crimea. “No one should have any doubts about it,” he told Russia’s Security Council by video. Putin vowed a “tough” and “proportionate” response if further Ukrainian attacks threaten Russia’s security. Putin alleged the bridge attack was masterminded by Ukrainian special services. Russian President Vladimir Putin said his forces targeted key energy infrastructure and military command facilities with “precision weapons” in retaliation for what he claimed were Kyiv’s “terrorist” actions - a reference to Ukraine’s attempts to repel Moscow’s invasion, including an attack Saturday on a key bridge between Russia and the annexed Crimean Peninsula. Power outages also often deprive residents of water, given the system’s reliance on electricity to run pumps and other equipment.Īndriy Yermak, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the strikes had no “practical military sense” and that Russia’s goal was to cause a “humanitarian catastrophe.” The attacks plunged much of the country into a blackout, depriving hundreds of thousands of people of electricity into Monday night and creating a shortage so severe Ukrainian authorities asked people to conserve and announced they will stop power exports to Europe starting Tuesday.
One hit a playground in downtown Kyiv and another struck a university. Though Russia said missiles targeted military and energy facilities, some struck civilian areas while people were heading to work and school. Many of the attacks occurred far from the war’s front lines. Ukraine’s Emergency Service said nearly 100 people were wounded in the morning rush hour attacks that Russia launched from the air, sea and land against at least 14 regions, spanning from Lviv in the west to Kharkiv in the east. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Russia retaliated Monday for an attack on a critical bridge by unleashing its most widespread strikes against Ukraine in months, a lethal barrage that smashed civilian targets, knocked out power and water, shattered buildings and killed at least 14 people.
0 kommentar(er)
