The balance sheet could still change. Another missile hit a nearby kindergarten, apparently with no casualties.
AFP witnessed the rescue of the seven-year-old girl’s mother, which took several hours. She was stuck under a concrete slab, according to the emergency services. Authorities presented her as a citizen of the Russian Federation, in her 30s. She was taken to hospital in serious condition.
PHOTO VLADYSLAV MUSIIENKO, REUTERS
Rescuers carry a woman injured in the strikes.
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According to Mr. Klitschko, the Russians wanted to “intimidate the Ukrainians […] approaching the NATO summit” and that of the G7, the two events being linked in Bavaria then in Spain from this Sunday until Thursday.
Irena, 32, stepped out onto the sidewalk with her 17-month-old son Makar. “We went down with our emergency backpack which has been near the door since the beginning of the war because we had to evacuate,” she said.
The last Russian strike on the capital dates back to June 5, and targeted a factory on the southeastern outskirts, injuring one person. Nevertheless, the aerial alert sirens sound almost daily, inviting the inhabitants to go to the shelters. The alerts on Sunday morning lasted more than five hours.
More weapons and sanctions demanded against Moscow
The Ukrainian government on Sunday demanded more weapons and sanctions against Moscow from the G7 countries, meeting at a summit in Bavaria (Germany), following new Russian strikes in Kyiv.
“The G7 Summit must respond with more sanctions against Russia and more heavy weapons for Ukraine”, urged Dmytro Kouleba, the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, on Twitter, calling for “defeating sickly imperialism” Russian following this attack which injured at least four people.
“A 7-year-old Ukrainian child was sleeping peacefully in Kyiv until a Russian cruise missile blew up her building,” said the Ukrainian Foreign Minister.
“It is extremely important that during the summits this week, the G7 and NATO demonstrate that their commitment to defending Ukraine will never be weaker than the desire to [Vladimir] Putin to seize it, ”also insisted on Sunday Mr. Kouleba in a column co-written with his British counterpart, Liz Truss.
The minister again called for “increasing and accelerating the supply of heavy weapons, toughening sanctions against all those who contribute to Putin’s war and completely stopping Russian energy imports”.
“Each additional weapon will help the Ukrainians repel the Russian invaders” and “each new sanction will contribute to draining Putin’s military machine of resources and saving more lives”, he said.
Military training centers attacked
Russia said on Sunday it struck three military training centers in northern and western Ukraine, including one near the Polish border, days before a NATO summit of which Warsaw is a member.
These bombardments were carried out with “high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces and missiles [de croisière] Kalibr,” Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a statement.
Among the targets is a military training center for Ukrainian forces in the Starytchi district, in the Lviv region, about thirty kilometers from the Polish border.
The other two targeted Ukrainian training centers are in the Zhytomyr region (Centre-West) and in the Cherniguiv region (North).
Mr. Konachenkov did not specify from where or when these missiles had been fired, but Ukraine announced on Saturday that Russia had carried out strikes that day from Belarus, the northern border. Moscow has not commented on this.
After these strikes, several Ukrainian brigades “completely lost their combat capabilities” and “plans to deploy them to combat zones were thwarted”, Konashenkov said.
With these bombings, Russia is once again reminding us that it is capable of reaching any point in Ukrainian territory, even if most of the operations now take place in the east and south of this country.
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France Media Agency
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“There were four missiles from 6:30 a.m.,” Edouard Chkouta, who lives in this wealthy neighborhood in the northwest of the Ukrainian capital, told AFP.
An apartment building “was hit directly on the top floors and I saw with my own eyes injured people coming out,” he said.
PHOTO NARIMAN EL-MOFTY, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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This is the third time since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine that this district located not far from the historic center has been targeted by missiles. He was first hit in mid-March, then on April 28, during the visit to Kyiv by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. A Ukrainian journalist from Radio Liberty had died.
The district arms factory, called Artem, founded at the end of the 19the century, notably produces rockets and large-caliber missiles, according to a Ukrainian specialized military site.
Shortly after the strikes, dozens of residents gathered on the sidewalks in front of the affected building, some in tears, others in bathrobes or accompanied by their dogs, while the emergency services began to evacuate, noted a team. AFP on the spot.
The last three floors of the building, which has about ten, were completely destroyed. Several fires broke out, releasing thick brown smoke. Firefighters fought for several hours to control two sources of fire.
PHOTO SERGEI SUPINSKY, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
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An AFP collaborator living in another building in the same residential complex heard a loud buzz preceding the explosions, typical of missile attacks.
A Ukrainian air force spokesman said the strikes were carried out by missiles, “probably X101s”, fired by TU-95 and TU-160 bombers from the Caspian Sea. Moscow did not immediately confirm this information.
“Intimidate” before the summit
“I went to the balcony, I saw missiles falling and heard a huge explosion, everything vibrated,” Yuri, 38, who also lives in this complex, told AFP.
Four injured were hospitalized, including a seven-year-old girl who lived on the ninth floor of the affected building. It was “extracted from the rubble”, explained the mayor of Kyiv, Vitaly Klitschko, who arrived quickly on the site.
PHOTO SERGEI SUPINSKY, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Le maire de Kyiv, Vitaly Klitschko
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The balance sheet could still change. Another missile hit a nearby kindergarten, apparently with no casualties.
AFP witnessed the rescue of the seven-year-old girl’s mother, which took several hours. She was stuck under a concrete slab, according to the emergency services. Authorities presented her as a citizen of the Russian Federation, in her 30s. She was taken to hospital in serious condition.
PHOTO VLADYSLAV MUSIIENKO, REUTERS
Rescuers carry a woman injured in the strikes.
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According to Mr. Klitschko, the Russians wanted to “intimidate the Ukrainians […] approaching the NATO summit” and that of the G7, the two events being linked in Bavaria then in Spain from this Sunday until Thursday.
Irena, 32, stepped out onto the sidewalk with her 17-month-old son Makar. “We went down with our emergency backpack which has been near the door since the beginning of the war because we had to evacuate,” she said.
The last Russian strike on the capital dates back to June 5, and targeted a factory on the southeastern outskirts, injuring one person. Nevertheless, the aerial alert sirens sound almost daily, inviting the inhabitants to go to the shelters. The alerts on Sunday morning lasted more than five hours.
More weapons and sanctions demanded against Moscow
The Ukrainian government on Sunday demanded more weapons and sanctions against Moscow from the G7 countries, meeting at a summit in Bavaria (Germany), following new Russian strikes in Kyiv.
“The G7 Summit must respond with more sanctions against Russia and more heavy weapons for Ukraine”, urged Dmytro Kouleba, the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, on Twitter, calling for “defeating sickly imperialism” Russian following this attack which injured at least four people.
“A 7-year-old Ukrainian child was sleeping peacefully in Kyiv until a Russian cruise missile blew up her building,” said the Ukrainian Foreign Minister.
“It is extremely important that during the summits this week, the G7 and NATO demonstrate that their commitment to defending Ukraine will never be weaker than the desire to [Vladimir] Putin to seize it, ”also insisted on Sunday Mr. Kouleba in a column co-written with his British counterpart, Liz Truss.
The minister again called for “increasing and accelerating the supply of heavy weapons, toughening sanctions against all those who contribute to Putin’s war and completely stopping Russian energy imports”.
“Each additional weapon will help the Ukrainians repel the Russian invaders” and “each new sanction will contribute to draining Putin’s military machine of resources and saving more lives”, he said.
Military training centers attacked
Russia said on Sunday it struck three military training centers in northern and western Ukraine, including one near the Polish border, days before a NATO summit of which Warsaw is a member.
These bombardments were carried out with “high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces and missiles [de croisière] Kalibr,” Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a statement.
Among the targets is a military training center for Ukrainian forces in the Starytchi district, in the Lviv region, about thirty kilometers from the Polish border.
The other two targeted Ukrainian training centers are in the Zhytomyr region (Centre-West) and in the Cherniguiv region (North).
Mr. Konachenkov did not specify from where or when these missiles had been fired, but Ukraine announced on Saturday that Russia had carried out strikes that day from Belarus, the northern border. Moscow has not commented on this.
After these strikes, several Ukrainian brigades “completely lost their combat capabilities” and “plans to deploy them to combat zones were thwarted”, Konashenkov said.
With these bombings, Russia is once again reminding us that it is capable of reaching any point in Ukrainian territory, even if most of the operations now take place in the east and south of this country.
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