President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces were holding back Russia’s attempt to advance south and east as efforts continued for the safe passage of residents trapped in Mariupol, which has been largely reduced to rubble in two months. siege. An official in the president’s office did not rule out the possibility of an evacuation until Friday.
Russia pounded targets across Ukraine on Thursday, including an attack in Kyiv that hit a high-rise apartment building and another building. The US-funded radio station Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty said journalist Vira Hyrych, who lived in one of the buildings hit, had died. Her body was found in the rubble on Friday.
Ten people were injured in the attack, including at least one who lost a leg, according to Ukraine’s emergency services.
In a clear reference to the same strike, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that it had destroyed “production buildings” at the Artem defense plant in Kyiv.
The attack in Kyiv came just an hour after Zelensky gave a press conference with Guterres, who toured some of the disasters in and around Kyiv and condemned the attacks on civilians during his visit.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in the center, stands next to a mass grave in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine, on April 28. (Efrem Lukatsky / The Associated Press)
“This says a lot about Russia’s true attitude towards world institutions, about the efforts of the Russian authorities to humiliate the UN and everything that the organization represents,” Zelensky said in an overnight speech to the nation. “Therefore, it requires a correspondingly strong reaction.”
Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko scoffed at the attack as equivalent to Russian President Vladimir Putin pointing the “middle finger” at Guterres.
The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a police recruiting center at Kisak, west of Moscow. Instead, fierce Ukrainian resistance, reinforced by Western weapons, prevented Putin from advancing and forced his troops to withdraw to regroup.
Some have begun pushing for the country’s eastern industrial heart, Donbass, which Moscow now says is its focus. It was difficult to get a complete picture of the unfolding battle in the east, because air raids and artillery barricades have made the circulation of journalists extremely dangerous. Both Ukraine and Moscow-backed rebels fighting in the east have also imposed severe restrictions on reports from the battle zone.
Residents of Kiev leave their apartment building on Friday after it was destroyed by Russian bombing. (Gleb Garanich / Reuters)
So far, however, Russian troops and separatist forces appear to have made only small gains, and the British Ministry of Defense said on Friday that these have been achieved at a significant cost to Russian forces.
The purpose of Guterres’s visit was to ensure the evacuation of people from the ruined southern port of Mariupol, including a ruined steel plant where Ukrainian defenders are hiding and hundreds of civilians have also taken refuge. Previous evacuation efforts have failed.
“I can not confirm the exact details of the operation to make sure it will be done safely for our people and for the civilians trapped in Mariupol,” said Saviano Ampreou, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Negotiations in progress
An official from Zelensky’s office said negotiations were under way with the mediation of the UN and did not rule out the possibility of evacuating the plant on Friday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Mariupol has seen some of the most dramatic hardships of the war. Under siege from the first days of the invasion, many of its inhabitants were trapped with limited access to food, water, medicine or electricity. An estimated 100,000 people are still in the city, and the city council warned on Thursday that a lack of safe drinking water or a functioning sewer system could lead to outbreaks of deadly diseases such as cholera and dysentery. He added that the corpses were decomposing under the rubble. Russian forces largely control the city, but about 2,000 Ukrainian fighters are hiding in the steel plant, the last known resistance pocket. About 1,000 civilians are with them, and fighters say recent concentrated bombings have killed and injured people. A video posted on the Internet by Ukraine’s Azov Constitution inside the steel plant shows people combing the rubble to remove the dead and help the injured. The regiment said the Russians had struck an improvised underground hospital and its operating room, killing an unspecified number of people. The video could not be verified independently. Russia’s invasion of its neighbor on February 24 overthrew the post-Cold War security order. Putin, long annoyed by NATO’s expansion into Eastern Europe, says the operation seeks to “demilitarize” Ukraine, aims to protect people in the predominantly Russian-speaking Donbass region and ensure Russia’s own security. One of Moscow’s demands was for Ukraine to abandon its bid to join NATO’s Western alliance. Ukraine and the West say it was an unprovoked and illegal invasion launched to overthrow the government in Kyiv.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces were holding back Russia’s attempt to advance south and east as efforts continued for the safe passage of residents trapped in Mariupol, which has been largely reduced to rubble in two months. siege. An official in the president’s office did not rule out the possibility of an evacuation until Friday.
Russia pounded targets across Ukraine on Thursday, including an attack in Kyiv that hit a high-rise apartment building and another building. The US-funded radio station Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty said journalist Vira Hyrych, who lived in one of the buildings hit, had died. Her body was found in the rubble on Friday.
Ten people were injured in the attack, including at least one who lost a leg, according to Ukraine’s emergency services.
In a clear reference to the same strike, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that it had destroyed “production buildings” at the Artem defense plant in Kyiv.
Separately, a former US Marine was killed while fighting on the side of Ukrainian forces, his relatives told him, which would be the first known death of an American citizen who took part in the war. The United States has not confirmed reports of his death.
The attack in Kyiv came just an hour after Zelensky gave a press conference with Guterres, who toured some of the disasters in and around Kyiv and condemned the attacks on civilians during his visit.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in the center, stands next to a mass grave in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine, on April 28. (Efrem Lukatsky / The Associated Press)
“This says a lot about Russia’s true attitude towards world institutions, about the efforts of the Russian authorities to humiliate the UN and everything that the organization represents,” Zelensky said in an overnight speech to the nation. “Therefore, it requires a correspondingly strong reaction.”
Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko scoffed at the attack as equivalent to Russian President Vladimir Putin pointing the “middle finger” at Guterres.
The strikes were the heaviest Russian bombardment of the capital since Moscow’s forces retreated weeks ago after failing to capture the city in what they hoped would be a lightning strike. Instead, fierce Ukrainian resistance, reinforced by Western weapons, prevented Putin from advancing and forced his troops to withdraw to regroup.
Some have begun pushing for the country’s eastern industrial heart, Donbass, which Moscow now says is its focus. It was difficult to get a complete picture of the unfolding battle in the east, because air raids and artillery barricades have made the circulation of journalists extremely dangerous. Both Ukraine and Moscow-backed rebels fighting in the east have also imposed severe restrictions on reports from the battle zone.
Residents of Kiev leave their apartment building on Friday after it was destroyed by Russian bombing. (Gleb Garanich / Reuters)
So far, however, Russian troops and separatist forces appear to have made only small gains, and the British Ministry of Defense said on Friday that these have been achieved at a significant cost to Russian forces.
The purpose of Guterres’s visit was to ensure the evacuation of people from the ruined southern port of Mariupol, including a ruined steel plant where Ukrainian defenders are hiding and hundreds of civilians have also taken refuge. Previous evacuation efforts have failed.
“I can not confirm the exact details of the operation to make sure it will be done safely for our people and for the civilians trapped in Mariupol,” said Saviano Ampreou, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Negotiations in progress
An official from Zelensky’s office said negotiations were under way with the mediation of the UN and did not rule out the possibility of evacuating the plant on Friday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Mariupol has seen some of the most dramatic hardships of the war. Under siege from the first days of the invasion, many of its inhabitants were trapped with limited access to food, water, medicine or electricity. “Locals who manage to leave Mariupol say it is hell,” said Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boichenko. Those who remain “please be saved … it is not a matter of days, it is a matter of hours”. An estimated 100,000 people are still in the city, and the city council warned on Thursday that a lack of safe drinking water or a functioning sewer system could lead to outbreaks of deadly diseases such as cholera and dysentery. He added that the corpses were decomposing under the rubble. Russian forces largely control the city, but about 2,000 Ukrainian fighters are hiding in the steel plant, the last known resistance pocket. About 1,000 civilians are with them, and fighters say recent concentrated bombings have killed and injured people. A video posted on the Internet by Ukraine’s Azov Constitution inside the steel plant shows people combing the rubble to remove the dead and help the injured. The regiment said the Russians had struck an improvised underground hospital and its operating room, killing an unspecified number of people. The video could not be verified independently. Russia’s invasion of its neighbor on February 24 overthrew the post-Cold War security order. Putin, long annoyed by NATO’s expansion into Eastern Europe, says the operation seeks to “demilitarize” Ukraine, aims to protect people in the predominantly Russian-speaking Donbass region and ensure Russia’s own security. One of Moscow’s demands was for Ukraine to abandon its bid to join NATO’s Western alliance. Ukraine and the West say it was an unprovoked and illegal invasion launched to overthrow the government in Kyiv.
