The Secretary General of the United Nations Organization (UN), António Guterres, expressed “deeply dismayed by the large-scale missile attacks” launched on Monday by Russia against Ukrainian cities, according to his spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric.
“The Secretary-General is deeply shocked by today’s large-scale missile strikes by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation against Ukrainian cities which are said to have caused widespread damage to civilian areas and resulted in the deaths and injuries of dozens of people,” Dujarric said. in a sentence.
For António Guterres, these attacks “constitute another unacceptable escalation of the war and, as always, civilians are paying the highest price.”
Russia bombed several Ukrainian regions, such as kyiv (the capital), Lviv, Khmelnytskiy, Dnipro, Vinnitsa, Zaporizhia, Sumy, Kharkiv and Khitomir, triggering “a very hard morning” in the country, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
According to Zelensky, the attacks were carried out with Iranian weapons.
The latest balance of the bombing shows at least ten dead and 60 wounded.
According to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Russia used 83 missiles and 17 Iranian-made drones in the bombing.
According to a spokesman for the Ukrainian air force, quoted by the Kyviv Independent newspaper, 43 of the launched missiles were shot down by Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine has already caused the flight of more than 13 million people -more than six million internally displaced persons and more than 7.5 million to European countries-, according to the most recent data from the UN, which places this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
The Russian invasion -justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security- was condemned by the generality of the international community, which has responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing Russia since political and economic point of view. sanctions
The UN presented as confirmed since the beginning of the war 6,114 civilian deaths and 9,132 wounded, stressing that these figures are far below the real ones.
Source: TSF
