The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg, also condemned the “horrible and indiscriminate” attacks.
The Ukrainian military said Russian forces fired 75 missiles at cities across the country, in a series of attacks that included the use of Iranian drones launched from Belarus.
Addressing his Security Council, Russian President Vladimir Putin assured that if Ukraine’s “attempted terrorist attacks” continue, as described by the blowing up of the bridge to Crimea, the aftershocks will be “severe.”
His predecessor and number two on the Security Council, former President Dmitri Medvedev, stated that the bombings were only the “first episode” and called for the “total dismantling” of Ukrainian political power.
“The first episode has been carried out and there will be others,” Medvedev wrote on Telegram.
At the same time, the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Putin, accused Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine of preparing attacks against his country and announced the deployment of joint troops with Russia.
In a speech to the nation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Macron for a “tough” response against Moscow.
“We discussed strengthening our air defense, the need for a tough European and international reaction and increased pressure against Russia,” Zelenskiy said on Twitter, after a conversation in which he called for a meeting to be called today. G7 emergency.
In this sense, Germany affirmed that the delivery of a first anti-aircraft defense system to Ukraine, promised for months, is imminent.
The German consulate building in kyiv was hit in Russian missile attacks, but a Berlin government spokesman explained that as the headquarters has been out of operation for months, there were no casualties.
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Putin reported that the Russian bombs targeted, in addition to kyiv, cities such as Dnipro and Zaporizhia, in the center of the country, and Lviv, in the west.
The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that it had targeted Ukraine’s energy, military and communications infrastructure.
In kyiv, police said at least five people were killed and a dozen wounded.
Ukrainian authorities said the central Shevkenko district of the capital was hit and a university, museums and the philharmonic building were damaged. One of the shells landed near a playground.
Lviv in western Ukraine, largely spared from the fighting to date, was also shelled, leaving part of the city without electricity or hot water, its mayor Andriy Sadovyi said.
According to Moldova, the Russian cruise missiles launched against Ukraine entered its airspace, for which it summoned the representative of Moscow to ask for explanations. The shelling, on a scale not seen in months, comes two days after an explosion partially destroyed the strategic Crimean bridge, an attack Moscow blamed on kyiv.
Putin on Sunday accused the Ukrainian secret services of having caused the powerful explosion and called the incident a “terrorist act”.
Source: Ambito
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