Two missiles fell to the center of the Ukrainian capital while the United Nations Secretary General was there, the day after his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
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Antonio Guterres was “shocked”, according to a UN spokesperson, to be not far from the place where two missiles hit kyiv. The United Nations Secretary had made his first visit to Ukraine on Thursday, April 28, since the start of the war, and had just emerged from a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky.
No one can obviously know if Moscow struck rue Tatarska, in the Chevtchenkivsky district, located in the center of kyiv, to impress Mr. Guterres, but the fact that the Ukrainian capital had not been bombed for fifteen days has prompted Ukrainian power to establish a link between the two events. “It says a lot about Russia’s true attitude towards international institutions, on the efforts of Russian leaders to humiliate the UN,” said Mr. Zelensky in a video message.
kyiv, which the Russian army tried without success to conquer for five weeks, between February 24 and March 31, found almost normal city appearance. Check-point has been dismantled, businesses have reopened, and residents roaming nonchalantly until the time of the curfew, which is now in force at 10 p.m. Even if the Russian threat remains permanent, the Ukrainian capital begins to blow and savor the arrival of spring.
“Odious act of barbarism”
Rue Tatarska, the missiles hit the ground floor with a residential building, emptied at that time. Three fires started in the vicinity. The nearest fire building, the Artem factory, could have been the main target because it is a military site. Ten people were reportedly injured. Very nervous soldiers, present in force in the neighborhood and helped by rescuers, were trying to see, while firefighters were fighting against the flames, if companions of arms were prisoners of the rubble.
“By this odious act of barbarism, Russia once again demonstrates its attitude towards Ukraine, Europe and the world,” reacted the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ukrainian, Dmytro Kuleba, in reference to the visit by M. Guterres. The presidency advisor, Mykhaïlo Podoliak, recalled that the UN secretary general was, before his arrival in Ukraine, visiting Russia: “The day before, he was sitting at a long table at the Kremlin, and , today, explosions are above his head. A Moscow postcard? “
kyiv’s bombardment arouses the efforts undertaken by the United Nations Secretary General in an attempt to save civilians taken from the fighting in Marioupol, the port city of the country. The UN, which shines by its absence on the humanitarian field for two months, makes, according to Mr. Guterres, “all his possible” to save the inhabitants of Marioupol from “the apocalypse” who fell on them.
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