Russia massively bombard Ukraine with drones and ballistic missiles on Thursday, June 6, kicking at least four people in the capital kyiv, a few days after a spectacular attack against Russian military airfields.
While the Kremlin had suggested that he was preparing an answer, aerial alerts were thrown throughout the night throughout the Ukrainian territory and several regions have reported multiple strikes, especially in the West, far from the front line.
“Four people confirmed dead in the capital,” said Mayor Vitali Klitschko on Telegram, after mentioning a death and 20 injured, including 16 hospitalized.
Emergency services had previously indicated that kyiv had the objective of an “attack involving ballistic drones and missiles” that affect several districts of the city. Among the damage reported as a result of explosions and debris falls, a fire broke out in a residential building, the same source said.
According to the civil and military authorities of the city, metropolitan routes have been damaged by Russian bombing. The National Railway Company has caused its state of damage to the rails of the region, affecting the traffic of traffic that serve the southern periphery of kyiv.
Several bombed regions
Outside the capital, several regions have informed important Russian bombings. In Lontsk (West), not far from the Polish border, “a massive attack of missiles and drones” partially destroyed “a residential building, which makes five injured, according to the head of the Regional Military Administration Ivan Rudnytsky in Telegram.
Also in the West, the Ternopil region has suffered “the most massive air attack to date”, with “multiple strikes” according to Viatcheslav Negoda, head of the Regional Military Administration.
“Industrial and infrastructure facilities have been affected,” said Ternopil Serguiï Nadal Mayor. “Certain parts of ternopil have no electricity and the water distribution pressure has been reduced due to energy cuts.”
In Russia, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobianine said the capital had been attacked by 10 Ukrainian drones during the night. Three airports that served Moscow closed temporarily, according to the Air Transport Agency, which then lifted the restrictions.
No Appegation Sign
Despite the calls of Ukraine and the Western ones in the high immediate fire and the pressure exerted by Donald Trump to begin the conversations and end the conflict, the fighting does not show signs of appeasement, more than three years after the launch of the Russian military offensive on a large scale.
Russia currently controls about 20% of this neighboring country, including Crimea, Peninsula attached in 2014. At the end of a call with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, the US president warned that Moscow was taken with the daring attack released last weekend by Ukraine against Russian pumps, up to thousands of kilometers of his edges.
Moscow also accused Kyiv on Tuesday of the explosions that last weekend, the collapse of two bridges and trains accidents that left seven dead and more than one hundred injured last weekend, including children, in the Russian regions of Koursk and Brita, edges of Ukraine.
During the night from Thursday to Friday, a derailed locomotive in the Russian region of Belgorod, a border of Ukraine, without making a victim, said the Russian rail company. The governor of the region, Viatcheslav Gladkov, said an “explosive device under the rails” in Telegram had been placed.
Unacceptable “ultimatums”
At the diplomatic level, two negotiation cycles carried out in Istanbul between kyiv and Moscow on a truce, encouraged by Washington, did not gather the positions.
During the second meeting on Monday under Turkish mediation, the Russian delegation delivered a list of applications to kyiv, including the withdrawal of its forces from four regions, including Moscow, annexation, the resignation of Ukraine to integrate NATO and the limitation of the size of its army. Conditions qualified Wednesday by Volodymyr Zelensky of “Ultimatum” unacceptable.
The only result of these discussions: Russians and Ukrainians must proceed this weekend to a new exchange of 500 prisoners of war in each camp, after an earlier exchange of 1,000 people on each side in May. Kyiv and Moscow also agreed to deliver the bodies of thousands of killed soldiers.
Visiting Washington on Thursday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz begged Donald Trump to “increase the pressure on Russia” to bring him to end the war.
Source: BFM TV
