KYIV: A “huge” Russian missile assault on Kyiv on Thursday (Apr 24) killed at the very least 9 and wounded dozens in one of many deadliest strikes on the Ukrainian capital since Moscow launched its invasion greater than three years in the past.
Ukraine has been battered by Russian aerial assaults throughout the war, however lethal strikes on Kyiv, which is best protected by air defences than different cities, are much less widespread.
The assaults throw but extra doubt on already fraught US efforts to push Russia and Ukraine to agree to a ceasefire, hours after US President Donald Trump lashed out at Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy for refusing to just accept Moscow’s occupation of the Crimean peninsula as a situation for peace.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is but to answer Zelenskyy’s supply to fully halt air assaults on civilian targets, and final month rejected a US-Ukrainian call for a full and unconditional ceasefire.
“Putin demonstrates by way of his actions, not phrases, that he doesn’t respect any peace efforts and solely needs to proceed the warfare,” International Minister Andriy Sybiga stated on social media, additionally slamming Moscow’s “maximalist calls for for Ukraine to withdraw” from extra of its territory as a situation of peace.
“Putin reveals solely a want to kill,” Andriy Yermak, a high aide to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, added.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal stated Russia had “terrorised Ukrainian cities all through the night time”.
“Cruise and ballistic missiles, drones, air bombs. Russia is cruelly and cynically firing missiles at Ukrainian cities, killing individuals whereas the world is making efforts to ascertain peace,” he stated in a publish on social media.
