Russia has once again chosen the tactics of terror by placing civilians in the center of the Diana. At least two ballistic missiles have fallen early this Sunday in a residential area of the city center of Sumi, in the northeast of Ukraine, next to the Russian border. According to the still provisional balance, at least 34 people have died, including two children; And more than 117 have been injured, 10 of them minors. It is one of the most deadly Russian attacks in three years of large -scale invasion. “On this brilliant day of Palm Sunday,” said the mayor of Sumi, Artem Kobzar, in his social media profile, “our community suffered a terrible tragedy.” The killing occurs a month after Ukraine accepted the proposal of the United States of Alto El Fuego for a period of 30 days. An offer to which Kremlin has kept silent. “Only a bastard could act like this. Removing life of ordinary people,”.
. The Ukrainian army, which penetrated for the first time in Kursk last September, still controls about 70 square kilometers of Russian soil, and endures the great counteroffensive launched by Moscow. According to the information disseminated by the Ukrainian Air Forces, the bombing on the center of Sumi, about 48 kilometers from the Linde, has arrived from the Kursk vector, where Russia accumulates 67,000 soldiers. Moscow has reported progress towards Sumi, specifically with the capture of the town of Zhuravka, something about which kyiv has not pronounced.
“A terrible attack with Russian ballistic missiles about Sumi,” Zelenski reported on his social networks. “The enemy missiles impact a normal street of a city, in normal life: houses, educational institutions, cars in the street … and this occurs a day in which people go to church: Ramos Sunday, the party of the entrance of the Lord in Jerusalem.” Only 48 hours before, the Ukrainian leader had visited the tragic scenario of. Also there, on April 4, a ballistic missile ended the life of 20 people; Among them, nine children.
Shortly after ten o’clock this Sunday the alarms sounded in the central and eastern sector of Ukraine, including the capital, kyiv, for the possibility of a bombing with ballistic missiles. The flight speed of these projectiles, some of them hypersonic, makes the alert spread over hundreds of kilometers of the country. A few minutes later news began that at least two of these missiles had hit Sumi, in the center, between the streets Vulitsia Magistraska and Petropavlivska, a residential area in which several university complexes are located. The temperature was soft of a sunny day, so there were people in the streets.
. Corpses thrown by the ground, flame cars, burst facades … According to the message of the first mayor of the city, the attack has affected residential and non -residential buildings. In one of the recordings made from the confluence of the two streets, and disseminated by Zelenski himself, you can see the bodies of many civilians on the ground. The attack hit the passage of a public bus, on which a tree started from rennet also fell by the force of the explosion. There were victims inside. The first hypotheses suggest that Russia used Iskander M missiles, with the ability to load up to 700 kilograms of explosives and a range of up to 500 kilometers.
The province of Sumi was a Russian objective in the first bars of the great offensive launched on February 24, 2022. However, the Ukrainian army managed to repel the onslaught and throw the enemy from the province in the first weeks of April. In the summer of 2023, stability in the area caused the two parties to agree, in Russia. But the situation has turned.
Condemnation of the US envoy
“A strong worldwide response is needed,” President Ukraine continued in his message. “The United States, Europe, all in the world who want the end of this war and this massacre. Russia wants this type of terrorism and is prolonging this war. Without pressure on the aggressor, peace is impossible.” From Washington, the special American envoy for Ukraine, General Keith Kellogg, who visited kyiv official last trip last February, has expressed himself in very hard terms. “Today’s attack, Palm Sunday, Russian forces against civil objectives in Sumi exceeds all the limits of decency,” Kellogg said on social networks. “As an old military command I know about objectives [militares] And this is wrong, ”he added in a message. The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has described the Russian attack as” horrifying “and wanted to remember the” time and effort “they are allocated in the government has achieved a” fair and lasting “peace.
This new massacre threatens to derail any climate, even if it is warm, of possible negotiation for peace. It occurs two days after the American envoy to Russia ,. According to the Kremlin version, the appointment between Witkoff and Putin, which they staged with a warm handshake, was “productive” and revolved around Ukraine. There were no more details.
As there were no meeting between the US and Russian delegations a month ago in Yeda, in Saudi Arabia, after accepting the Ukrainian government a 30 -day truce. Given the proposal, Putin put on the table unassumable conditions by kyiv, such as drying the mobilization and training of his troops during a supposed fire, as well as that the foreign supply of armament was cut.
The silence of Moscow and the constant hammering with which the Ukrainian territory has already hooked its civilian population has even contrasted the US president, Donald Trump, who urged last Friday to his Russian counterpart to “move” towards a peace agreement. Precisely after the krivói rog slaughter on April 4, the Republican president said “pissed off” with Moscow. “They are bombing like crazy,” he said in a public appearance from the White House. A day before the brutal bombing in the hometown of Zelenski, the Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev, man of the nearby circle of Putin, met with several members of the US administration in a climate of good understanding.
On March 25, Moscow and kyiv committed themselves, again with the mediation of Washington, to a cessation of hostilities against the energy sectors and in the Black Sea. and that has not been fulfilled.
From Brussels, European institutions have blurred the attack in Sumi. “A barbarian attack, which became even more vile when people gathered peacefully to celebrate Ramos Sunday,” said the president of the European Commission, the German Ursula von der Leyen. “This last climb is a gloomy reminder: Russia was and remains the aggressor, in flagrant violation of international law.” The high representative for the foreign policy of the European Union, Estonia Kaja Kallas, has affirmed in the X network that bombing is a “horrible example of how Russia intensifies its attacks while Ukraine has accepted a high unconditional fire.”
Along the same lines, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, one of the most active European leaders in the search for the cessation of violence, has spoken. “Everyone knows that it is only Russia who wants this war,”. “Only Russia wants to continue with this, showing his contempt for human life, international law and diplomatic efforts made by the president [Donald] Trump Energetic measures are needed to impose the fire in Russia. ”British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who along with Macron leads the so -called volunteer coalition, has urged Putin to accept” a high total and immediate fire without conditions. “
“The Russian version of a high fire,” said the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, “Domingo de Ramos Blood in Sumi.” The Spanish Foreign head, José Manuel Albares, has accused Russia for maintaining a “terror strategy.” , since the large -scale invasion initiated by Russia in February 2022, more than 12,700 civilians have died and more than 30,000 have been injured. The real figures are greater, because in the officers the victims are not included in territory occupied by the Russian troops in the east of Ukraine.
