The budget of the victims of the Russian air attack on Kiev continues to worsen: according to the update provided by the head of the military administration of the capital, Timur Tkachenko, the dead are 19, including four minors.
Meanwhile, the evacuation operations of the rubble from a residential building in the Darnitsky district of the capital continue and rescuers are extracting the bodies from under the rubble.
The last massive attacks of Russia on Ukraine “cannot remain without consequences”, Germany warned. At least 15 people, including a two -year -old boy, were killed in drones and missiles on Kiev; Even a building from the EU delegation and the British Council headquarters have been damaged.
“Last night we witnessed once again in a terrible way how Russia attacked and bombed Kiev, they died civil, children and also the delegation of the European Union has been attacked,” said German Foreign Minister, Johann Wadephul to journalists. “And this cannot remain without consequences,” he warned.
“Russia chooses ballistics instead of the negotiation table,” the Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelensky denounced on social media.
In the air attack on Kiev, left at 3 in the morning, the authorities reported impacts in more than 20 locations; A five -storey building in the eastern area of the city has been completely destroyed. Moscow claims to have targeted “successfully” only “military objectives”. Among the victims there are three minors, two, seven and 17 years. The wounded are at least 45, while three people were extracted alive by the rubble. The mayor Vitali Klitschko declared a day of city mourning for tomorrow.
The condemnation from Europe was immediate: to the British premier Keir Starmer, who spoke of “senseless attack”, echoed the French president who defined Moscow actions “terror and barbarism”. “The attack he hit in the immediate vicinity of the representation of our union,” said Ursula von der Leyen, “is another sad post -playful reminder”; the president of the European Commission then ensured the “maximum pressure on Russia” reiterating that “soon” the 19th pack of sanctions will be presented.
The aerial bombings on Kiev had been relatively moderate during this month, when the President of the United States, Donald Trump, accelerated diplomatic efforts – for now Vani – to put an end to the war, first meeting his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, Alaska and then in Washington the same Zelensky with European leaders and NATO.
Trump pushed for a bilateral summit between Russian and Ukrainian leaders, but Moscow continues to reject the idea by limiting himself to underlining the need to accurately prepare the meeting. Zelensky has supported the initiative, but asked for security guarantees to western allies to prevent any future Russian attack in case of peace agreement. Tomorrow, on this issue, a meeting between high Ukrainian and American officials is scheduled in New York.
The Kiev leader has returned to ask for an increase in pressure on Moscow also by allies such as China and Hungary, in words in favor of a diplomatic solution of the crisis. Beijing invited the parties to conflict to “create the conditions for a political solution” shortly after announced that Putin, together with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, will be alongside President Xi Jinping in the military parade of 3 September in the Chinese capital for the 80 years of the end of the Second World War.