A great Russian attack went to kyiv on the night of Wednesday, August 27 to Thursday, August 28 and left at least eight dead, a child, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Telegram, when Donald Trump made diplomatic efforts to try to end the conflict.
“Russia chooses ballistics, not the negotiating table. Choose to continue the murders, do not finish the war,” wrote the Ukrainian president.
Last night, AFP journalists heard powerful explosions resonate in the capital and saw that a missile was killed, the incandescent debris fell, while listening to sounds that also evoked the presence of drones.
The military administration reported, at this stage, three dead, including a 14 -year -old teenager, and at least 12 injured, evoking a missile and drone attack with damage to several districts. “In Darnytsky’s district, preliminary information indicates that a five -story building collapsed,” said Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
The head of the capital administration of the capital, Tymour Tkatchenko, had previously mentioned a “Russian ballistic attack” that caused a fire in a nursery school and a residential building.
“The terrorist state, Putin and his desire for peace”
AFP has seen the residents of the capital take refuge in a subsoil following the events in Telegram. Others have taken refuge with their sleeping bag in the subway.
“This is all to know about the terrorist state, Putin and his desire for peace,” the head of the presidential administration Andriï iermak reacted on Telegram. An air alert remained in force throughout the Ukrainian territory around 5 am (local time).
Outside the capital, the Ukrainian railway company reported a Russian “mass attack” that caused energy cuts in the Vinnytsia (center) region, causing traffic delays.
A distant peace agreement
At the end of July, Russian bombings left more than 30 dead, including five children in Kiev, one of the most mortal attacks in the Ukrainian capital since the beginning of the Russian Invasion on a large scale in 2022.
These strikes had pushed Donald Trump to strengthen pressure on Moscow to accept a truce and led to their meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
After this summit, followed by a visit to Washington by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accompanied by his European allies, the US leader said he wanted to prepare a face -to -face meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian presidents.
Since then, there has been no progress for such a summit, Moscow and Kyiv reject a blockade. Before the conclusion of a hypothetical peace agreement, Ukraine wants to obtain security guarantees so that the western ones deter Moscow from any new attack.
The Kremlin said it was “unfavorable” on Wednesday to a possible shipment of European troops to Ukraine as part of a possible peace agreement.
Volodymyr Zelensky said to see “very negative and arrogant signs of Moscow about peace.” He called to “press” to “force Russia to take concrete measures.” He announced that the members of his team would meet Donald Trump representatives on Friday in New York.
Four Ukrainian regions in the heart of negotiations
To end his assault, Russia states in particular that Ukraine gives him four partially occupied regions, in addition to Crimea Annexa in 2014, and renounces the Atlantic Alliance. Conditions that Kyiv judges unacceptable.
The Russian army, which occupies about 20% of Ukraine in the east and the south, has accelerated its progression in the field in recent months against less numerous and less well equipped Ukrainian units.
For the first time on Tuesday, Ukraine acknowledged that Russian soldiers had entered their Dnipropetrovsk (Center-East) region, where Moscow had claimed progress in July.
This region is not one of the five Ukrainian regions of which Moscow affirms annexation.
Source: BFM TV
