Russia launches lethal attack on Ukraine. There are signs that Kiev “will have to accept” the US plan

At least 26 people were killed, including three children, and more than 70 were injured. Kiev received US peace plan.

A Russia starred in a attack has Ukraine, on a scale unprecedented in the last months of the war. And one of more episodes lethal since the beginning of the conflict.

The attack took place in the early hours of Wednesday. In Ternopil, western Ukraine, at least 26 peopleincluding three children, died in an attack that hit a housing building, the Ukrainian Emergency Service said. The bombing also 73 injuredof which 15 were minors.

Ternopil was considered a relatively safe area. It even received inhabitants from other regions of Ukraine, who took refuge there.

Already in Kharkiv, around 50 people were injured during the night attacks that hit several neighborhoods in the city.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy detailed that Russia launched more than 470 drones and 48 missiles of different types against various regions of Ukrainian territory.

O west of Ukraine was one of the main targets of the bombing, which again caused damage to the energy infrastructure of several Ukrainian regions.

As United Nations condemned the Russian attacks, reiterating that international law prohibits attacks on civilians.

“Houses and critical civil infrastructure were severely damaged across the country, including health and educational facilities. From Kharkiv in the east to Ternopil and the Ivano-Frankivsk region in the west, families lost loved ones, suffered injuries and saw their homes destroyed,” humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine Matthias Schmale said in a statement.

The attacks by the Russian armed forces “also damaged energy infrastructure, causing emergency power cuts and worsening the effects of previous attacks,” the UN representative added.

“Com as temperatures dropping below zero In some parts of Ukraine, these disruptions put millions [de cidadãos] em serious risk”, he also mentioned.

According to Matthias Schmale, “at least a dozen children were among the injured”. “THE Suffering theirs is inconceivable”, lamented.

US peace plan

Ukraine received this Wednesday a peace plan two United States which includes the ceding of territories controlled by Russia and army reduction Ukrainian, said a Ukrainian official.

The proposal includes “the recognition of the [anexação da] Crimea and other regions taken by Russia” and “the reduction of the army to 400,000 people“, said the Ukrainian official, who asked not to be identified, to the France-Presse news agency. “We are receiving signals that we have to accept this plan”indicated the same source.

The – which had already reported that there were negotiations between Moscow and Washington – speaks of a plan with 28 points, which would also include a limitation on the military assistance provided to Kiev by the United States and a restriction on the categories of weapons that could be used.

The areas that Ukraine still controls in Luhansk and Donetsk provinces would become a demilitarized zone. In Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, the other two provinces with ground fighting, the front lines would be frozen, with Russia returning some territory. Ukraine will not have been heard to implement this proposal, says a government source in the country.