Kyiv: Mourning day after Russian attacks with 15 dead

According to the Interior Ministry, at least 15 people were killed in Russian attacks on Kiev on Thursday night. At least one child was among the victims, said the boss of the military administration of the Ukrainian capital, Tymur Tkatschenko.

In eastern Ukraine, Moscow reported the conquest of the strategically important city of Tschassiw Jar, which was immediately denied by Kiev. Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selksyj called for efforts to change the regime in Russia.

Russia has fired a total of 309 drones and eight marching missiles on Ukraine since Wednesday evening, the Ukrainian Air Force said. 288 drones and three marching aircraft were therefore fended off.

The main goal of the attacks was the Ukrainian capital, according to the Air Force. According to the authorities, one of the rocket attacks in Kyiv were torn out the facade of a nine -story house. Rescue workers searched for survivors in the middle of piles of rubble, as journalists from the AFP news agency observed.

According to the rescue workers, at least 15 people were killed in this and other attacks and 145 others were injured. A six -year -old boy died on the way to the hospital in an ambulance, as Military Department leader Tkatschenko announced. According to the authorities, 14 children were among the injured.

“It is a terrible morning in Kiev. The brutal Russian attacks destroyed entire houses and damaged schools and hospitals,” said Foreign Minister Andrij Sybiha in the online service X.

The Ukrainian President Selenskyj accused Moscow of targeting killing. “Today, the world saw the answer of Russia again at our request for peace that we share with America and Europe,” he said in online networks. Peace without strength is impossible. Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko called out a mourning day for Friday.

Selenskyj called the world to penetrate a “regime change” in Russia. Otherwise, Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin will continue to try to destabilize neighboring countries, the Ukrainian president said in an online speech at a conference on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki KSCE closure, a significant document of relaxation policy during the time of the Cold War.

Selenskyj also called for a complete blockade of “Russia’s war machinery”. “All frozen Russian assets, including the wealth stolen by corruption,” would have to be used to defend it “against Russian aggression”.

It was only on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump Moscow set a period of ten days to end the Ukraine War and otherwise threatened with sanctions. The Kremlin was unimpressed by this.

The Ministry of Defense in Moscow announced on Thursday that the Russian troops had conquered the city of Tschasiw Jar in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk. The Ukrainian army denied this. The information from Moscow is a “complete lie,” said a Ukrainian military spokesman for the AFP news agency.

The Russian armed forces have tried to achieve control over the strategically important city for more than a year. If you have now conquered Tschasiw Jar, it would pave the way for the Russian troops to advance to the remaining civilian strongholds in Donetsk – including Kramatorsk and Slowjansk. These are important logistics base for the Ukrainian military. In addition, they are home to many civilians who have not yet fled the fights.

Donetsk is one of four Ukrainian regions that Moscow declared annexed in September 2022. In the previously unsuccessful conversations about a ceasefire and the end of the war, Moscow demands that Ukraine Donetsk and the three other partly Russian regions, which are partly occupied by Russia. Ukraine rejects this as completely unacceptable.

The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sybiha called for more pressure on Russia on Thursday. Trump “was very generous and patient with Putin”, if it was a matter of finding a solution, Sybiha wrote at X. Putin, however, has no interest in “ending killing”, warned Sybiha. “It’s time for maximum pressure on Moscow.”