Ukraine: Selenskyj accuses Russia of North Korean rocket

According to the first Ukrainian findings, Russia used a ballistic rocket from North Korean production in a fatal attack on the capital Kiev. “If the information about the production of this rocket in North Korea is confirmed, this will become further evidence of the criminal alliance of Russia and Pyongyang,” wrote President Wolodymyr Selenskyj on Telegram. The Ukrainian secret services would check all the details. So far, the information on the origin of the rocket is still temporary.

In the morning, at least a dozen people were killed in a combined attack by drones and rockets on the three million city. Around 90 were injured.

After the attack, US President Donald Trump called for an end to the bombing. He was “not happy about the Russian attacks on Kiev,” Trump wrote in online services on Thursday. “Vladimir, stop!” He warned to the Russian head of state Vladimir Putin. NATO Secretary General Rutte sees Russia responsible for completing the Ukraine War.

The attacks were “not necessary” and took place with a “very bad timing”, the US president continued. 5000 soldiers were killed in the war every week, said the US President. “Let’s finance the peace agreement!”

Berlin, Brussels, Paris and London accused Moscow of undermining efforts to make peace with his attacks. “At least twelve killed civilians and over 90 injuries, including six children: that is Putin’s ‘peace balance’ from last night,” said the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin after the attack in Kiev. It is alone Russia that continues to block peace in Ukraine and Europe.

The EU foreign commissioner Kaja Kallas accused Russia of mocking the peace efforts. “This is not a striving for peace, but its mockery,” she said in the Bluesky online service. The “true obstacle” on the way to peace is not “Ukraine, but Russia”.

“While Ukrainian Minister in London worked towards peace, Putin’s Russia attacked the Ukrainian people,” said British Foreign Minister David Lammy in the online service X. “These are not the deeds of a man of peace”.

France’s President Emmanuel Macron accused Putin of lying with the statements of alleged peace intentions in Ukraine. Putin tells the US dealers that he wants peace and bombing the neighboring country at the same time. “The only thing that President Putin has to do is finally to listen to lies,” emphasized Macron.

The Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj reduced a visit to South Africa because of the attacks and complained that no pressure is exerted on Moscow to end his attacks. “I don’t see a strong pressure on Russia or any new sanction packages against Russia’s aggression,” he said.

Just a few hours before the renewed Russian attack on Ukraine, Trump had declared that he saw an agreement with Russia in the negotiations on the end of the Ukraine War that had been going on for months. According to US media, a proposal for a ceasefire presented by the United States is far towards the Russian demands. According to this, the United States could actually recognize the Russian crew of the East Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Cherson and Saporischeschja, as was the annexation of the Crimea peninsula by Russia in 2014.

According to the reports, Washington Moscow also guarantees that Ukraine will never join NATO. According to “Axios”, Ukraine should receive a “robust security guarantee” with the participation of European and non-European countries. However, it is unclear how a possible peace -safe use would be organized and whether the United States would be involved.

Selenskyj had ruled several times and emphasized that such a step would violate the Ukrainian constitution. Trump described Selenskyj’s attitude as “very harmful for peace negotiations with Russia”.

NATO General Secretary Mark near Russia sees the key to a possible peace solution in the Ukraine War. The ball was clearly in the Russian field, said Rutte on Thursday after a meeting with Trump in the White House. There was a proposal on the table, and the Ukrainians adhered to the rules of the game, the general secretary emphasized.

The proposal, which is rumored by the US media, met with sharp criticism in Germany, among other things. The CDU foreign politician Roderich Kiesewetter called him a “championship certificate”. Neither Europe nor Ukraine could agree to this “because our security would then be endangered,” he told the ARD morning magazine.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported a total of 70 rocket and 145 drone attacks in the Ukrainian area on Thursday night. According to the emergency services, at least twelve people were killed in the attack in Kiev in the early morning and 90 others were injured. Deadly attacks on the capital, which is better protected than other cities in the country, are rare.

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