kyiv continues to come under heavy bombardment. This Tuesday morning, several buildings were hit in the Ukrainian capital, attacked by Moscow, killing at least two people. The Russian army is stepping up its offensive in the country as talks continue on Tuesday and maintain a timid glimmer of hope.
On Facebook, emergency services said a “strike” had targeted a 15-storey building in the Svyatoshin district, in the west of the Ukrainian capital, causing the entire building to burn. “Two lifeless bodies were found on the spot,” said the rescuers, adding that they were able to save 27 people. According to this source, shots also targeted another building in the neighborhood, causing a small fire.
The windows blown by the explosion
The emergency services also indicated that a strike had hit a nine-storey building in the north-west of kyiv, in the Podil district, on Tuesday morning. One person was taken care of and hospitalized, according to the emergency services.
This explosion blew all the windows of the building and those nearby, according to an AFP journalist on the spot. In the early morning, several people were throwing debris from the windows of the building’s ravaged apartments.
New round of negotiations
On the twentieth day of war, the fourth session of negotiations to try to find a solution to this crisis was to resume on Tuesday after a “technical break” announced the day before at the end by the head of the Ukrainian negotiators.
This time, the discussions are taking place by videoconference after three face-to-face rounds in Belarus then a meeting Thursday in Turkey of the heads of Russian and Ukrainian diplomacy.
“They will achieve nothing by war”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky noted on Saturday a new, “fundamentally different” approach from Moscow in the negotiations.
During the night of Monday to Tuesday, he claimed via a video posted on his Facebook page that the Russians had “already begun to understand that they will not achieve anything through war”. ” Someone told me that [les pourparlers en cours] were pretty good,” said the Head of State. “But let’s wait and see,” he added.
“Full control” of major Ukrainian cities
For his part, his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin spoke on Friday of “advances” during these various negotiations while the Russian army increased its action on Ukrainian soil, including in regions hitherto spared.
“The enemy continues its offensive against our state. (…) Occupation forces continue to carry out strikes with missiles and bombs, artillery and tanks on infrastructure and civilian neighborhoods”, denounced the staff of the Ukrainian army in the night from Monday to Tuesday. The Kremlin on Monday raised “the possibility of taking full control [les] big cities that are already surrounded”.
Source: 20minutes
