A Russian night attack against kyiv caused the death of two people, the local authorities announced this Thursday, July 10, in the morning, before a meeting between the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, in a context of the diplomatic right in the Ukrainian archive.
According to the head of the kyiv Timour Tkatchenko military administration, Russian forces have attacked at least six districts in the capital. The intercepted projectile attacks or debris have significantly affected residential buildings, vehicles, warehouses and office buildings, of the same source.
“Unfortunately, we have two dead. These people were killed by the Russians,” wrote Timour Tkatchenko on the social network of Telegram, after mentioning 13 wounded.
A night attack of “almost ten hours”
The night attack in the kyiv region was “massive” and lasted “almost ten hours” with combat drones and missiles, said Mykola Kalachnyk, head of the Regional Military Administration.
The AFP journalists in kyiv have heard a powerful expression in the city during the night and given the explosions of intercepted projectiles in the sky by the anti -aircraft defense.
Several dozen inhabitants found refuge at a subway station in the city center, where the mattresses and camping teams were at their disposal.
The night before, Russia had launched its largest air attack since the beginning of the invasion in February 2022, with 728 drones and 13 missiles, whose quasi-majoria were intercepted, according to kyiv.
A Rubio-Lavrov meeting
In this context of intensification of Russian strikes and a diplomatic impasse, the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, will meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Thursday outside the meeting of chiefs of diplomacy in Southeast Asia (ASAN) in Kuala Lumpur.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced on Monday, July 7, wanting to send “more weapons” to kyiv, mainly “defensive” on Monday, July 7, and accused the next day Vladimir Putin said “shit” on Ukraine, while suggesting that he wishes to impose new sanctions on Russia.
The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and French president Emmanuel Macron must participate this Thursday in a videoconference meeting on Ukraine on Thursday, especially with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni or German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
According to the Elysée, American representatives should also attend.
Moscow and Kyiv very far from an agreement
Ukraine has been demanding for many months of its western allies, even in the United States, more anti -aircraft systems, in a war that has already made tens of thousands of at least dead, civil and military combined on both sides.
Because despite the pressure exerted by Donald Trump, Moscow and Kyiv remain very far from an agreement, either in a truce or in a long -term regulation.
A new stage of discussion between Russians and Ukrainians has not yet been announced, after two meetings not very fruitful in Türkiye in mid -May and then in early June. Ukrainian leaders accuse Moscow of “time savings” at a time when the Russian army, higher in number and armaments, still progresses in the front.
The Russian forces, which still occupy almost 20% of the Ukrainian territory, even affirmed at the beginning of the week taking a first town in the Dnipropetrovsk region (central-east).
Source: BFM TV
