The Russian bombings in kyiv on the night of Sunday, July 20 to Monday, July 21, left at least one dead and two injured, according to the Ukrainian authorities, just before the visit of the Chief of French diplomacy, Jean-Noël Barot.
426 drones and 24 missiles
These fatal strikes occur two days after the proposal of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to organize new conversations with Moscow this week, after the failure of two negotiation cycles in Istanbul in spring.
The Kremlin has not reacted, for the moment, to this proposal to try to find a diplomatic result in the war launched by the Russian invasion launched in February 2022 and have caused at least tens of thousands of deaths. During the night, the Russian army directed a new wave of bombing in several regions in Ukraine.
According to the Ukraine Air Force, 426 drones and 24 Russian missiles were launched, especially causing damage to the regions of Ivano-Frankivsk (West), Kharkiv (Northeast) and kyiv, local authorities reported.
“Terror”
In the capital, where six districts suffered damage, one person was killed and six other wounds, according to the National Police. The mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko, said several fires had been triggered, especially in a nursery. Intercepted drones attacks and debris have also affected residential buildings, a supermarket and the entrance to a metro station, according to Vitali Klitschko.
Ukrainian diplomacy, Andriï Sybiga, denounced “brutal” attacks. “We can end this terror. It is necessary for Ukraine to obtain additional anti -aircraft defenses and long -range abilities (strikes),” he added about X.
His French counterpart, Jean-Noël Barot, a two-day visit to kyiv, went to the Loukianivska Metro station, one of the sites damaged by night attacks. Deploring the attacks that go to a subway station that “serves as a refuge for the population of kyiv,” said the new European sanctions against Russia aimed to strengthen “the pressure on (the Russian president) Vladimir Putin to increase the cost of this unlikely war” and obtain a high fire.
On Friday, the European Union announced its 18th package of sanctions against Russia since the invasion of 2022, pointing to Russian oil gain.
Faced with the Russian bombings that cry Ukraine every day, the Ukrainian army is also almost daily Russian territory with drones. On Monday, these attacks forced the Venukouvo airport, near Moscow, to briefly interrupt its operation.
Bury of negotiations
Negotiations to find a diplomatic result, after more than three years of a devastating war, are blocked. Moscow requires the annexation of five Ukrainian regions, whose Crimea invaded in 2014, as well as the certainty that kyiv will never join NATO.
Unacceptable requests for Ukraine, which requires solid security guarantees to avoid any new Russian invasion. Faced with the stuttering of the conversations, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who approached Moscow to try to make progress, said his frustration and said that Vladimir Putin “disappointed him.”
Last Monday, he posed a 50 -day ultimatum to Russia to end his invasion of Ukraine under a penalty of severe sanctions, and said that the military team, paid by NATO European members, are sent to Ukraine.
After these statements, the Kremlin said he had been ready to negotiate, saying that he waited “proposals of the Ukrainian party” with respect to a third cycle of negotiations, after two unaccompanied sessions in Istanbul.
In the field, in recent weeks, Moscow has repeatedly launched mass air attacks against Ukraine, while its army, more numerous and better equipped, continues its attacks on the front, especially in the Donetsk region (East).
Source: BFM TV
