The head of diplomacy of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, condemned on Monday the new Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital, kyiv, and other cities in the country, guaranteeing that additional military support “is on the way”.
“I am deeply shocked by Russia’s attacks against civilians in kyiv and other cities in Ukraine. These types of acts have no place in the 21st century. I condemn them in the strongest possible terms,” Josep Borrell reacted, in a publication on the Twitter social network. .
After the bomb attacks in Ukraine, which caused several deaths, were announced this morning, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy said that “the EU stands with Ukraine”.
“Additional military support from the EU is on the way,” he added.
In his speech at the European Commission’s daily conference in Brussels, the institution’s spokesman for Foreign Affairs, Peter Stano, clarified that “what is on the way is […] that the European Union provides weapons to the Ukrainian defense forces to defend their people and their country”.
“This takes the form of bilateral arms supplies by member states and at the EU level,” said Peter Stano.
Also reacting on Twitter, the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, defended that “what is happening now in kyiv is disgusting.”
This situation “shows the world, once again, the regime we are facing, a regime that attacks indiscriminately, that sows terror and death even in children”, condemned the leader of the European assembly.
Roberta Metsola concluded: “This is criminal and they will be held accountable and Ukraine will win. Europe will not look the other way.”
Several people were killed in an attack this morning in the center of the Ukrainian capital, according to the spokeswoman for the kyiv Emergency Situations Department, Svitlana Vodolaga, quoted by the Ukrinform news agency.
According to the Kyiv Independent newspaper, this morning there were at least four explosions in the center of the Ukrainian capital and clouds of smoke are seen in the city center.
This is the first time that the Ukrainian capital has been bombed since last June, after the start of the war caused by the Russian invasion in February this year.
The bombing of kyiv comes in a day of airstrikes against several Ukrainian cities.
In the morning there was the third bombing in five days against the city of Zaporizhia (in the south of the country), in which, according to some media, one person died.
Ukrainian media also report several missile explosions in the city of Dnipro, as well as attacks in Zhytomyr, near kyiv, in Khmelnytskyi further east, on the bank of the Bug River from the south, and Ternopil (to the east, in the banks of the river Seret). ).
Last Saturday, the strong explosion of a truck caused the fire of seven fuel tanks of a train that was traveling to the Crimean peninsula, damaging the bridge that connects that peninsula occupied by Russia since 2014, in a situation that Moscow interpreted as “an act of terrorism”. “Ukrainian.
Source: TSF
