The bombings in the Ukrainian capital have killed a dead and several wounded, while, further north, the shots started from the Belarusian territory.
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The inhabitants of kyiv woke up on Sunday, May 26, with thick brown smoke in the sky. Around 6:30 a.m., a strike of Russian missiles hit a residential complex in northwest of the capital, killing and several injured. One of the missiles also crashed on a kindergarten, without making victims. The bombing coincided with the opening, a few hours later, of a G7 summit in Germany. The Ukrainian capital had not been affected for several weeks.
In the afternoon, a burned smell still floats in the air, while rescuers continue to clear the rubble from the building along a winding road, near the factory of ARTIOM armament. Municipal employees set the road with their brooms. A police cord prevents a crowd of curious people from approaching too closely. Oleksandr Makushenko, press officer of emergency security services, looking tired after spending the day in this disfigured space, assures that seventy-five emergency artists were dispatched to the scene. “We have rescued two women and two children,” he said, specifying that several hours were necessary to release a woman and a girl, stuck under rubble. “Unfortunately, we also found the body of a man,” blows the officer.
Later, in the evening, during his daily video message to the nation, the Ukrainian president said that the deceased man was 37 years old and that his daughter and his wife were injured. According to Volodymyr Zelensky, the mother is a “Russian citizen. Nothing threatened her in our state, she was safe until Russia decides that everything was hostile”.
On G7 representatives
This is not the first time that this kyiv residential complex has been affected. In mid-March, then on April 28, during a visit to the UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, the district had already been the target of bombing. During this last strike, a Ukrainian journalist from Radio Liberty had been killed in his apartment. This Sunday, the Russian Ministry of Defense once again claimed in a press release that the Armament Artization factory, “as a military infrastructure, was the target”, and that the damage caused to the neighboring residential building were due to a Ukrainian anti -aircraft defense missile.
Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of kyiv, accused the Russians of wanting to “intimidate the Ukrainians” as the G7 summit approaches, which started on Sunday in Germany, and that of NATO, planned for Open, Tuesday, June 28, in Spain. For the Ukrainian authorities, there is no doubt that the morning strike on the capital was a way, for the Kremlin, to put pressure on the G7 representatives. Russia “understands that there are no weapons that can scare us, it wants the whole world to be afraid,” the Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksi Reznikov said in a tweet. On the same social network, the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kouleba, urged G7 members to respond “by more sanctions against Russia and more heavy weapons for Ukraine”. Joe Biden, the American president, described the bombing of “barbarism”.
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