Ukraine President Volodimier Zelansky said he was cutting his official visit to South Africa on Thursday and returning home after a Russian strike on Ukrainian capital Kiev, at least eight people died and more than 70 were injured.
Zelancesi said in a telegram post that he would fly back to Kiev after a meeting with South African President Cyril Ramfosa.
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Efforts to end the Ukrainian leader were expected to recruit South African support His country war with RussiaNow in its fourth year.
Kiev was attacked after a peace talks with the President on Wednesday Trump exiting ZelanskySaying that he was prolonging the “murder area” by pushing Russia back on seeding Crimea as part of a possible peace plan. Later in the day, Mr. Trump said that it is “difficult” to deal with Russia with Zelansky.
Zelansky has said many times that recognizing the area occupied as Russian is a red line for his country. He said on Thursday that Ukraine agreed to a US ceasefire resolution 44 days ago, the first step for the peace of conversation, but the Russian attacks continued.
While negotiations are going on in recent weeks, Russia killed the city of Sumi, killing more than 30 civilians, gathering to celebrate Palm Sunday, defeated Odessa with a drone and exploded Zaporiziahia with a powerful glide bomb.
Senior US officials have warned that the Trump administration may soon abandon its efforts to stop the war if both sides do not compromise.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Sibih said that the latest attack has revealed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has determined the benefit of his large army to press on the front line of about 620-miles, where it currently gains momentum.
“Putin displays through his actions, not words, that he does not respect any peace efforts and only wants to continue the war,” Sibi said on X, “weakness and concessions will not stop her terror and aggression. There will be only strength and pressure.”
Ukrainian Prime Minister Dennis Shamihal said since Russia’s full -scale invasion of its neighbor of February 2022, Russian attacks killed some 13,000 citizens, including 618 children.
The Ukrainian Air Force stated that Russia fired 66 ballistic and cruise missiles, four-laden air-launched missiles, and 145 Shahd and Dickoy Drone and four other areas of Ukraine in Kiev.
According to the Reuters News Agency, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that the Zelanceci was refusing to give any concession in peace talks and would only agree to a ceasefire on its terms.
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Kiev Mayor Vitali Clitsco said Reuters had confirmed eight people in the capital. Officials had earlier said that nine were killed.
Ukraine’s state emergency service said that at least 42 people were hospitalized in Kiev. Operations were still going on in search of dead bodies under the debris.
In a kiev residential building that was almost completely destroyed, emergency workers removed the debris with their hands, rescuing a stuck woman, who emerged from the rubble covered in white dust and was mourning in pain.
An elderly woman sat against a brick wall, the face smelled with blood, her eyes were fixed to the ground in shock because Medics was tilted to her wounds.
The city’s head of military administration, Timur Takchenko, said, fire was reported in several residential buildings.
The attack, which began around 1:00 pm, hit at least five neighborhoods in Kiev. In sviatoshynkskyi district, a residential building had a blast that was damaged in the attack.
Associated press noted that rescue teams dug up people trapped under the debris of the building and the bodies are taken away.
A student, Oksana Bilozir suffered a head injury to the attack. With blood seeping blood from his banded head, he said that he heard a loud explosion after an alarm of air and started catching his things to run into a shelter when another explosion ruined the walls of his house and closed the lights.
Referring to the war against Russia’s invasion, “I honestly know how it will end; it is very scary.” “I only believe that if we can stop them on the battlefield, this is the case. No diplomacy works here.”
More fire was reported in Shevchenkivski and Holosivski districts.
33 -year -old Anastasia Zuravalova, a mother of two, was sheltered in a basement, as many explosions damaged her house. His family was sleeping when the first explosion shattered its windows and blew the kitchen equipment in the air. Glass sheets rained them to run to take cover in the corridor.
“After that we came into shelter because it was scary and dangerous at home,” he said.
