Russia has struck the capital of Ukraine last one in the morning (22:00 GMT), when several explosions of great power have shaken the center of kyiv and its surroundings. The bombing, which has mixed ballistic missiles with drones, has forced to activate all alarms in the city and have caused fires, material damage and at least 12 injured in several districts. “kyiv is suffering a combined attack,” the regional military administration has written on its Telegram channel, and has warned that new waves could arrive at any time.
The attack has occurred in full military escalation, but also political. Just a few hours earlier, US President Donald Trump, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenski, had starred in account of the. Trump accused Zelenski of endangering a possible agreement for refusing to recognize Russian sovereignty about Crimea, and came to qualify his words as “very harmful.” “Crimea was lost years ago, it is not even a point of discussion,” said the US president in Truth Socialin reference to the annexation of 2014.
Zelenski responded with forcefulness from kyiv: “There is nothing to talk about; it is our land, the land of the Ukrainian people,” he said in, where representatives of Ukraine, the US and several European countries participated. In Telegramthe Ukrainian President recalled, together with a statement signed then by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, which the Trump administration rejected in 2018 Russian sovereignty about Crimea: “No country can change borders by force.”
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The head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andrí Yermak, also spoke after meeting with the Trump emissary, Keith Kellogg. “Ukraine will remain firm in all circumstances in its basic principles, since these are the foundation of our sovereignty and territorial integrity,” he said. As it has transcended, the peace plan prepared by the White House contemplates the recognition of Crimea as Russian territory, the resignation of Ukraine to enter NATO and the acceptance of an American control over the Zaporiyia nuclear power plant, currently in the hands of Russia.
Trump insisted on Wednesday that the agreement is “very close” and expressed his desire to help both parties out of what he described as a “complete and total disaster.” At the same time, the American vice president, JD Vance, warned from India that “the time has come for the parties to assume it or the United States will be withdrawn from the process.”
Drones, fire and dead on several fronts of Ukraine
Meanwhile, the war did not give truce on the ground. In the city of Marhanets, a Russian dron hit a bus that transported workers from a mining plant, causing the death of nine people and leaving about 50 injured. Zelenski described the attack as a “deliberate war crime” and shared images of the place, where bodies were seen on the ground and emergency teams attending to the victims, mostly women.
The Ukrainian Air Force has reported that Russia launched a total of 134 drones on different regions of the country during the night. In Kherson, a power plant has been destroyed after an attack combined with artillery, according to regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin. In Dnipropetrovsk, an attack in the Synelnykivskyi district has hurt two people and has caused a fire in an agricultural exploitation. There have also been impacts in Poltava, with six injured, and in Odesa, where drones have reached civil facilities and caused several fires.
In Járkov, the fires unleashed by drones have been especially serious, as indicated by the mayor, íhor Terekhov. In the kyiv region, in addition to the damage to the capital, the drones have reached seven homes, a warehouse, an attached dependence and a restoration complex.
A Ukrainian delegation has traveled to London to collect international support with the aim of achieving fire. Ukraine insists that any negotiation must go through the Russian withdrawal and the restitution of its borders, while the diplomatic pressure from Washington and Brussels intensifies.
