Kyiv: Russia resumed its attack on Wednesday UkraineThe city’s second-largest city, which lit up the skies with fireballs in populated areas, even as both sides said they were ready to resume talks aimed at preventing a new devastating war in Europe. are ready.
An escalation of attacks on crowded cities followed an early round of talks between outgoing Ukraine and nuclear power Russia on Monday that only resulted in promises of meeting again. It was not clear when the new talks might happen or what they would achieve. Ukraine’s leader has previously said that Russia should stop the bombings before another meeting.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky The U.S. described Russia’s bombing as a blatant terror campaign, while US President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday that the offensive would not stop with one country if the Russian leader “did not pay the price” for the attack.
The bombing continued on Wednesday as well. The Ukrainian UNIAN news agency quoted the health administration chief of the northern city of Chernihiv as saying that two cruise missiles hit a hospital there.
Damage to the main building of the hospital, Serhi Pivovar said, and officials were working to determine the number of casualties. No other information was immediately available.
Ukraine’s state emergency service said the Russian attack also struck regional police and intelligence headquarters in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, which has a population of about 1.5 million, killing four and wounding several. It said residential buildings were also damaged, but did not give further details.
According to videos and photos released by the service, an explosion blew up the roof of the five-storey police building and set the top floor on fire. Pieces of the building were scattered in the adjacent streets.
A day after the attack in Kharkiv’s central square killed at least six people and stunned many Ukrainians to attack the center of life in a major city. The Russian attack also targeted a TV tower in the capital of Kyiv.
Roughly 874,000 people have fled Ukraine and the UN refugee agency has warned that the number could soon cross the 1 million mark. Countless others have taken refuge underground.
The total death toll in the Seven Days War is unclear, with neither Russia nor Ukraine releasing the number of soldiers lost. The UN Human Rights Office said it had recorded 136 civilian deaths, although the actual toll is certainly much higher.
Ukrainian officials said five people were killed in the TV tower attack, which also affected the Babi Yar Holocaust memorial site. A spokesman for the memorial said a Jewish cemetery at the site, where the Nazi occupiers killed more than 33,000 Jews in two days in 1941, was damaged.
Russia has previously asked people living near transmission facilities used by Ukraine’s intelligence agency to leave their homes. But Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed on Wednesday that the airstrike on the TV tower did not hit any residential buildings. He did not address the reported deaths or the damage done to Babi Yaar.
Zelensky, who called the strike on the square in Kharkiv a war crime that the world will never forget, expressed outrage on Wednesday over the attack on Babi Yar and expressed concern that other historically important and religious sites such as St. Sophia’s Cathedral would be targeted. can be made. , The shelling first took place in the city of Uman, an important pilgrimage site for Hasidic Jews.
“This is beyond humanity,” Zelensky said in a speech posted to Facebook. “They have orders to destroy our history, our country and all of us.”
Zelensky, who is Jewish, called on Jews around the world to oppose the invasion.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that a delegation would be ready later in the day to meet with Ukrainian officials despite Russia’s attack.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba also said his country was ready _ but said Russia’s demands had not changed and that he would not accept any ultimatum. Neither side said where the talks could take place.
As the war progresses, Russia finds itself increasingly isolated, beset by sanctions that have thrown its economy into turmoil and the country, apart from a few countries such as China, Belarus and North Korea. Left practically friendless. Major Russian bank Sberbank announced on Wednesday it was exiting European markets amid tight Western sanctions.
In Washington, Biden used his first State of the Union address on Tuesday to highlight the resolve of a strong Western coalition that has worked to regroup the Ukrainian military and adopt those tough sanctions.
“Throughout our history, the lesson we’ve learned is that when dictators don’t pay the price for their aggression, they create more chaos,” Biden said. “They keep walking. And the costs and dangers for America and the world keep mounting.
As Biden said, a 40-mile (64-kilometer) convoy of hundreds of Russian tanks and other vehicles moved slowly over Kyiv, the capital of about 3 million people, in what the West feared was the bid of the Russian president. Vladimir Putin To topple the government and establish a regime friendly to the Kremlin.
The invading forces also launched their attacks on other towns and cities. Britain’s Defense Ministry said Kharkiv and strategic port Mariupol was besieged by the Russian army and the troops reportedly moved to a third city, the center of Kherson. Russia’s defense ministry said it had seized Kherson, although the city’s mayor denied that Russia had taken full control.
The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, said it had received a letter from Russia saying its military had taken control around Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant. According to the letter, plant personnel continued their work on providing nuclear protection and monitoring radiation in the normal mode of operation, adding that “radiation levels remain normal.”
Russia has already taken control of the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which was the scene of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986.
The IAEA says it has received a request from Ukraine to “provide immediate assistance in coordinating activities regarding the security of Chernobyl and other sites”.
Many military experts worry that Russia may change strategy. Moscow’s strategy in Chechnya and Syria was to use artillery and aerial bombardment to crush cities and crush the fighters’ resolve.
Britain’s Defense Ministry said it had seen an increase in Russian air and artillery attacks on populated urban areas over the past two days. Human Rights Watch said it had documented a cluster bomb attack outside a hospital in Ukraine’s east in recent days. Residents also reported the use of such weapons in Kharkiv and Kiyanka villages. The Kremlin denied the use of cluster bombs.
Cluster bombs fire small “bullets” over a large area, many of which fail to detonate until they are dropped. If their use is confirmed, it would represent a new level of brutality in combat.
In the southern port city of Mariupol, the mayor said Wednesday morning that the attacks were frequent.
Mariupol mayor Vadim Boychenko was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying: “We can’t move the wounded from the streets, from houses and apartments today, because the shelling doesn’t stop.”
Boychenko used the same word to describe the actions of Russia as “genocide”. Putin Used to justify attack.
On Tuesday, days after raising the threat of nuclear war, Moscow made fresh threats of escalation. A top Kremlin official has warned that the West’s “economic war” against Russia could turn into a “real war”.
Russia has blamed the conflict on Western threats to Russia’s security, and Kremlin spokesman Peskov said Moscow was weighing counter-sanctions against “unfriendly countries”. They didn’t elaborate on what they might be targeting.
Peskov acknowledged that the global economic punishment to Russia and the Russians is now “unprecedented”, but said Moscow was prepared for all kinds of sanctions, and that potential damage was taken into account before launching an offensive.
“We have experience of this. We have gone through many crises,” he said.
Ukraine’s defense ministry said it had evidence that Russian ally Belarus was preparing to send troops to Ukraine. A ministry statement posted on Facebook early Wednesday said Belarusian troops were prepared for combat and concentrated close to Ukraine’s northern border. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said his country has no plans to join the fight.
An escalation of attacks on crowded cities followed an early round of talks between outgoing Ukraine and nuclear power Russia on Monday that only resulted in promises of meeting again. It was not clear when the new talks might happen or what they would achieve. Ukraine’s leader has previously said that Russia should stop the bombings before another meeting.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky The U.S. described Russia’s bombing as a blatant terror campaign, while US President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday that the offensive would not stop with one country if the Russian leader “did not pay the price” for the attack.
The bombing continued on Wednesday as well. The Ukrainian UNIAN news agency quoted the health administration chief of the northern city of Chernihiv as saying that two cruise missiles hit a hospital there.
Damage to the main building of the hospital, Serhi Pivovar said, and officials were working to determine the number of casualties. No other information was immediately available.
Ukraine’s state emergency service said the Russian attack also struck regional police and intelligence headquarters in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, which has a population of about 1.5 million, killing four and wounding several. It said residential buildings were also damaged, but did not give further details.
According to videos and photos released by the service, an explosion blew up the roof of the five-storey police building and set the top floor on fire. Pieces of the building were scattered in the adjacent streets.
A day after the attack in Kharkiv’s central square killed at least six people and stunned many Ukrainians to attack the center of life in a major city. The Russian attack also targeted a TV tower in the capital of Kyiv.
Roughly 874,000 people have fled Ukraine and the UN refugee agency has warned that the number could soon cross the 1 million mark. Countless others have taken refuge underground.
The total death toll in the Seven Days War is unclear, with neither Russia nor Ukraine releasing the number of soldiers lost. The UN Human Rights Office said it had recorded 136 civilian deaths, although the actual toll is certainly much higher.
Ukrainian officials said five people were killed in the TV tower attack, which also affected the Babi Yar Holocaust memorial site. A spokesman for the memorial said a Jewish cemetery at the site, where the Nazi occupiers killed more than 33,000 Jews in two days in 1941, was damaged.
Russia has previously asked people living near transmission facilities used by Ukraine’s intelligence agency to leave their homes. But Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed on Wednesday that the airstrike on the TV tower did not hit any residential buildings. He did not address the reported deaths or the damage done to Babi Yaar.
Zelensky, who called the strike on the square in Kharkiv a war crime that the world will never forget, expressed outrage on Wednesday over the attack on Babi Yar and expressed concern that other historically important and religious sites such as St. Sophia’s Cathedral would be targeted. can be made. , The shelling first took place in the city of Uman, an important pilgrimage site for Hasidic Jews.
“This is beyond humanity,” Zelensky said in a speech posted to Facebook. “They have orders to destroy our history, our country and all of us.”
Zelensky, who is Jewish, called on Jews around the world to oppose the invasion.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that a delegation would be ready later in the day to meet with Ukrainian officials despite Russia’s attack.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba also said his country was ready _ but said Russia’s demands had not changed and that he would not accept any ultimatum. Neither side said where the talks could take place.
As the war progresses, Russia finds itself increasingly isolated, beset by sanctions that have thrown its economy into turmoil and the country, apart from a few countries such as China, Belarus and North Korea. Left practically friendless. Major Russian bank Sberbank announced on Wednesday it was exiting European markets amid tight Western sanctions.
In Washington, Biden used his first State of the Union address on Tuesday to highlight the resolve of a strong Western coalition that has worked to regroup the Ukrainian military and adopt those tough sanctions.
“Throughout our history, the lesson we’ve learned is that when dictators don’t pay the price for their aggression, they create more chaos,” Biden said. “They keep walking. And the costs and dangers for America and the world keep mounting.
As Biden said, a 40-mile (64-kilometer) convoy of hundreds of Russian tanks and other vehicles moved slowly over Kyiv, the capital of about 3 million people, in what the West feared was the bid of the Russian president. Vladimir Putin To topple the government and establish a regime friendly to the Kremlin.
The invading forces also launched their attacks on other towns and cities. Britain’s Defense Ministry said Kharkiv and strategic port Mariupol was besieged by the Russian army and the troops reportedly moved to a third city, the center of Kherson. Russia’s defense ministry said it had seized Kherson, although the city’s mayor denied that Russia had taken full control.
The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog, said it had received a letter from Russia saying its military had taken control around Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant. According to the letter, plant personnel continued their work on providing nuclear protection and monitoring radiation in the normal mode of operation, adding that “radiation levels remain normal.”
Russia has already taken control of the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which was the scene of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986.
The IAEA says it has received a request from Ukraine to “provide immediate assistance in coordinating activities regarding the security of Chernobyl and other sites”.
Many military experts worry that Russia may change strategy. Moscow’s strategy in Chechnya and Syria was to use artillery and aerial bombardment to crush cities and crush the fighters’ resolve.
Britain’s Defense Ministry said it had seen an increase in Russian air and artillery attacks on populated urban areas over the past two days. Human Rights Watch said it had documented a cluster bomb attack outside a hospital in Ukraine’s east in recent days. Residents also reported the use of such weapons in Kharkiv and Kiyanka villages. The Kremlin denied the use of cluster bombs.
Cluster bombs fire small “bullets” over a large area, many of which fail to detonate until they are dropped. If their use is confirmed, it would represent a new level of brutality in combat.
In the southern port city of Mariupol, the mayor said Wednesday morning that the attacks were frequent.
Mariupol mayor Vadim Boychenko was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying: “We can’t move the wounded from the streets, from houses and apartments today, because the shelling doesn’t stop.”
Boychenko used the same word to describe the actions of Russia as “genocide”. Putin Used to justify attack.
On Tuesday, days after raising the threat of nuclear war, Moscow made fresh threats of escalation. A top Kremlin official has warned that the West’s “economic war” against Russia could turn into a “real war”.
Russia has blamed the conflict on Western threats to Russia’s security, and Kremlin spokesman Peskov said Moscow was weighing counter-sanctions against “unfriendly countries”. They didn’t elaborate on what they might be targeting.
Peskov acknowledged that the global economic punishment to Russia and the Russians is now “unprecedented”, but said Moscow was prepared for all kinds of sanctions, and that potential damage was taken into account before launching an offensive.
“We have experience of this. We have gone through many crises,” he said.
Ukraine’s defense ministry said it had evidence that Russian ally Belarus was preparing to send troops to Ukraine. A ministry statement posted on Facebook early Wednesday said Belarusian troops were prepared for combat and concentrated close to Ukraine’s northern border. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said his country has no plans to join the fight.