Kyiv/Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, Dmitro Kuleba, has condemned the attack launched by Russia with missiles of various types, some of which were supplied to Moscow by North Korea, in the early hours of this Monday, just a few hours before the Ugrain school year started.
“Tonight, Ukrainian schoolchildren and their parents slept peacefully at home before the start of the school year. “Russia launched a salvo of 35 missiles and 23 drones against Ukraine this morning, when people were sleeping,” Kuleba wrote on his X social network account.
Air defenses destroyed more than twenty cruise and ballistic missiles in the airspace of kyiv, according to the Military Administration of the capital of Ukraine.
“The air defense forces destroyed more than a dozen cruise missiles and nearly a dozen ballistic missiles in the airspace of the capital,” read the statement from the Military Administration, which says that a drone was also captured
“Air defense forces destroyed more than a dozen cruise missiles and nearly a dozen ballistic missiles in the capital’s airspace. “
The source also reports that fragments of captured missiles fell in three areas of the capital in which cars and non-residential infrastructure were damaged. According to the mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klichkó, at least two people were wounded during the attack, after pieces of missiles or interceptor drones were sent to Golosivsky, Sviatoshinskiy, Dnirpovskiy and Shevchenko districts. “The information about destruction and victims is being established,” he explained.
Thermal electricity generation infrastructure was damaged in Golosivski district, according to Klichkó. Military targets hit by the enemy are usually not reported by the authorities.
This major new attack on the capital comes a week after Russia attacked 15 of the 24 Ukrainian regions, including Kiev, with more than 200 missiles and drones that caused serious damage. on Ukraine’s electricity system, forcing the authorities to introduce daily blackouts.
“The attack was combined: cruises and ballistic missiles,” also says the official note from the Military Administration, which explains that the cruise missiles were of the Kh-101 type and ballistic missiles KN-24 and Iskander. The KN-24 are North Korean-made missiles transferred by Pyongyang to Russia, which they used in the past against the territory ofUkraine.
Ukraine’s head of diplomacy pointed to this source of weapons to demand a change in the policy of supplying weapons to its Western allies.
“The regimes in Pyongyang and Moscow have no restraint in their long-term attacks against anywhere in Ukraine. However, when we defend ourselves against these two barbaric war machines, Ukraine has to fight with its hands tied behind its back,” said Kuleba.
“When we defend ourselves against these two barbaric war machines, Ukraine has to fight with its hands tied behind its back.”
The minister of Ukraine was referring to the ban, by the main allies of Ukraine, on the use of long-range weapons that they send to kyiv against targets located along inside Russia.
“Isn’t that absurd?” Kuleba said about this restriction that the allies keep in case Russia responds.
Following the deadly Russian attacks on Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities in recent days, Kyiv has stepped up diplomatic efforts to get the US, UK, Germany and France to prevent this.
Ukraine argues that the use of Western long-range precision missiles against Russian airbases and other targets would allow it to neutralize many of the Russian airstrikes at source.
“It’s time for Ukraine’s partners to abandon these unfounded fears and lift the restrictions,” said Kuleba, who said the right to self-defense recognized in The UN treaty gives kyiv the right to strike the territory of the aggressor country.
Regarding the supply of missiles to Russia by North Korea, Kuleba warned that it could “cause a serious deterioration of the security situation on the Korean Peninsula, in the Asia-Pacific (region) and around the world.”
The stronger Ukraine is, and the less the Russian and North Korean dictators succeed, the more stable Europe and Asia will be.
“We urge our Asian partners to consider increasing their military assistance to Ukraine,” he wrote. “The stronger Ukraine is, and the less Russian and North Korean dictators succeed, the more stable Europe and Asia will be,” he said.
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, had previously referred briefly to the beginning of the school year, thanking the Ukrainian teachers who teach for another year under the threat of Russian attacks and the army that protects the school for their work to make it possible. civilian population from these attacks.
