Russian Attack on University and Theater in Ukraine Leaves Several Dead

Russian attack on a university and a theater in Ukraine 2

A Russian bombardment left at least six dead this Saturday, including a girl, in the center of Chernihiv (northern Ukraine), Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky said on Saturday.

“A Russian missile hit the heart of the city, in our Chernihiv,” the president wrote. “A square, the polytechnic university, a theater. An ordinary Saturday that Russia turned into a day of pain and loss. There are dead, there are wounded, ”he specified.

The Ministry of the Interior specified that another ten children were injured.

“This is what it means to live alongside a terrorist state. This is what we are uniting the entire world against,” Zelensky denounced.

My condolences to everyone who has lost a loved one. All services are working on site. Rescuers, police, doctors”, added the head of state.

The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, has assured this Saturday that the Russian Army has hit the central square of the northern city of Chernihiv

Zelensky called on the world “to confront Russian terror” and to provide Ukraine with “additional tools to safeguard life.” “For Russia to win its life, it must lose this war,” he concluded.

“All the emergency services are working on the spot. Unfortunately there is information about the deaths,” reported the mayor’s office of the city in northern Ukraine, through the Ukrinform portal.

Chernihiv, 140 kilometers north of Kiev, has been a city under constant siege by Russian troops since the start of the invasion, although the Ukrainian army managed to contain their attacks and prevent it from falling under enemy control.

The Ukrainian president arrived in Sweden this Saturday, where he plans to meet with the country’s prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, and with King Carl Gustaf, the president reported through his Telegram account.

“Our main task is to strengthen our air and land defenses, develop bilateral cooperation and the security of the Euro-Atlantic space,” Zelensky continues in the message transmitted after his arrival in the Nordic country.

Ukraine’s President Volodimir Zelensky visits a front line, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine August 15, 2023. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS/File

The Ukrainian leader travels accompanied by his wife, Olena, according to his message, and also intends to visit the Swedish Parliament.

The center-right government of Kristersonn announced last Tuesday a new aid package for Ukraine for 3.4 billion crowns (310 million dollars), for which Parliament and the Finance Committee were urgently summoned, to which it corresponds approve the game

The military aid includes ammunition and parts for the 90 and 122 main battle tanks and the Archer artillery system, which were already delivered to kyiv months ago.

Since the start of the Russian invasion, Sweden has delivered twelve military aid packages to Ukraine, totaling approximately 17 billion Swedish kronor ($1.55 billion) so far and including several Leopard tanks.

Zelensky’s visit to the Nordic country had not been previously announced, as is often the case when he travels abroad for security reasons.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson speaks during a news conference about the deteriorating security situation in Sweden as the country’s terrorist threat level rises to four on a five-point scale, in Stockholm, Sweden, 17 August 2023. Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency/via REUTERS/File

Sweden, a country that is still pending the completion of its NATO integration process in the absence of Turkey formalizing the ratification upon its entry, this week raised the level of terrorist threat to the second highest -4 on a scale of five-.

The Kirstesson government’s decision is due to a number of factors, including protests from the Islamic world over successive public burnings of the Koran, the latest of which took place yesterday, outside the Iranian embassy, ​​and again by the refugee Iraqi Salwan Momika.

(With information from EFE and AFP)

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