A week after invading Ukraine, Russia is stepping up airstrikes. At the same time, a second round of talks between the two countries is pending.
Russian airstrikes on several cities in Ukraine overnight. Authorities spoke of dead and injured. According to figures from the United Nations, more than a million people are now fleeing.
Explosions in Kyiv
Several heavy explosions occurred in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Thursday night. Air alarm was triggered, as reported by the Unian agency. Powerful detonations could be seen on videos on social networks.
Ukrainian media reported fighting in the suburbs of the city of millions. A Russian plane is said to have been shot down. The information was not independently verified. Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram: “The enemy is trying to break through to the capital.”
Eight dead in air raid near Kharkiv
According to local authorities, eight people, including two children, were killed in an airstrike in the eastern Ukrainian city of Izyum near Kharkiv. According to the media, a multi-storey residential building was hit during the attack on Thursday night.
Two rockets hit an administrative building in the city of Kharkiv. The Assumption Cathedral was also damaged.
Port city of Mariupol without power supply
According to local authorities, the southern Ukrainian port of Mariupol with around 440,000 inhabitants is without water, heating and electricity after air raids. The municipal utilities want to try to restore the critical infrastructure, Mayor Wadym Bojchenko said, according to the Unian agency.
Mariupol is located near the so-called line of contact between pro-Russian separatists and the Ukrainian army in the Donetsk administrative region and is of great strategic importance. According to the authorities, more than 130 people have been injured in air raids in Mariupol. In Korosten, north of the city of Zhytomyr, two people died in an airstrike on a large checkpoint, according to the administration. Five people were injured.
Air raid also north of Zhytomyr
In Korosten, north of the city of Zhytomyr, two people died in an airstrike on a large checkpoint, according to the administration. Five people were injured.
UN: One million people fled Ukraine
According to the United Nations, a million people have already fled the attacked country since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “For many more millions in Ukraine, it is time the guns went silent so that life-saving humanitarian assistance could be delivered,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi wrote on Twitter.
120 orphans on the way to Berlin
After the evacuation of an orphanage in Odessa, southern Ukraine, around 120 children – including a six-day-old baby – fled to Berlin. The orphans set off in five buses with a dozen carers, said Chief Rabbi of Odessa and southern Ukraine, Abraham Wolff. The buses arrived in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, on Wednesday. An attack by the Russian army is feared in Odessa.
Germany wants to deliver anti-aircraft missiles
Germany wants to deliver 2,700 Strela anti-aircraft missiles from former stocks of the GDR’s National People’s Army (NVA) to Ukraine, as the German Press Agency learned from circles in the Federal Ministry of Economics. On Saturday, the federal government decided to deliver 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 “Stinger” surface-to-air missiles from Bundeswehr stocks.
Zelenskyj: Occupiers will not have peace
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy remains combative. “You will not have peace here, you will not have food here, you will not have a quiet minute here,” he said in a video message.
Occupiers would only get one thing from the Ukrainians: “Such fierce resistance that they will always remember that we will not give up what is ours.” Selenskyj spoke of almost 9,000 Russians killed. Russian soldiers were being taken prisoner every day.
Negotiators from Russia and Ukraine want to meet for official talks on a ceasefire for the second time since the war began. According to a report by the Interfax agency, the head of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Medinski, said the Ukrainians were on their way. Both sides agreed on the Brest region in western Belarus as the location for the talks.
Source: Stern
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