One particular person died and no less than six had been wounded in a Russian missile strike that hit a residential condominium block in Kyiv. The metropolis’s Deputy Mayor, Volodymyr Bondarenko, mentioned 4 of the injured had been admitted to the hospital as search and rescue operations proceed.
Bondarenko additionally mentioned a kindergarten was hit in the missile strike however nobody was injured, and video from Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed a big missile funnel in the yard of the kindergarten.
Those injured in the residential block included a 7-year-old woman, he mentioned. Her mom, a 35-year-old girl named Katerina, was rescued from the rubble and put into an ambulance. She is a citizen of Russia, however had lived in Kyiv for a very long time.
A CNN crew on the bottom spoke to the injured woman’s grandmother, Natalia Nikitina, who came upon concerning the assault on-line and rushed to the condominium block, the place she cried as she watched groups attempting to rescue her daughter-in-law.
“There is nothing worse than losing loved ones. Why do we deserve this?” she mentioned. An enormous plume of smoke continued to billow from the constructing two hours after the strike, whereas practically each window was blown out on the highest ground, and the bottom was coated in particles and twisted steel.
Ukrainian air power spokesman Yurii Ihnat mentioned “strategic bombers” had been used to hit the capital, with “four to six missiles” launched. He added that on Saturday, Russia had used Tu22M3 long-range bombers from the airspace of Belarus for the primary time in a Ukrainian air strike.
“There are people are trapped under the rubble. Some residents have been evacuated, with two victims hospitalized. Rescuers are continuing their work,” he mentioned.
Speaking to CNN onsite, Klitschko mentioned Russia’s warfare on Ukraine was “senseless” and 1000’s of civilians had died, and added, “We have to do everything to stop this war.”
The Ukrainian State Emergency Service mentioned the hearth was attributable to “enemy shelling” and was over an space of 300 sq. meters, in “a 9-storey residential building with partial destruction of the 7th, 9th and 9th floors.”
The identical neighborhood was hit by a missile strike in early May, and was additionally focused in March.
Vadym Denysenko, an adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs, mentioned on Ukrainian tv that there are “a number of military infrastructure facilities located in the Shevchenkivskyi district of the Ukrainian capital. This is the reason why the Russians are shelling this district.”
US President Joe Biden known as Sunday’s assault “more of [Russian] barbarism.” He declined to reply when requested whether or not the strikes had been a deliberate provocation in the course of the G7 summit.
Russian offensive continues in jap Ukraine
On Sunday, the pinnacle of the neighboring Donetsk area’s navy administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, mentioned Russian forces had been gathering for recent assaults in the area, practically half of which is underneath Ukrainian management.
“We are now witnessing the accumulation of manpower, heavy armored vehicles and artillery in the direction of Sloviansk,” Kyrylenko mentioned on Ukrainian tv.
“The enemy is using its well-known tactics, trying to move closer to our line of defense in order to fire artillery at the cities. Enemy artillery is already reaching certain parts of Sloviansk. This is another confirmation that people should evacuate.”
Throughout the offensive in the east, Russian forces have used intense artillery and rocket bombardment forward of attempting to take floor. They are attacking areas of Donetsk from three instructions.
Kyrylenko mentioned there had been a missile strike and rocket assaults on Kurakhove, a city on the southern entrance line in Donetsk that has been a goal of Russian assaults for greater than two months. Avdiivka had additionally been hit by rockets, he mentioned.
As Russian forces step up the momentum of their offensive in jap Ukraine, the town of Kharkiv and surrounding areas have come underneath rising artillery hearth once more.
Video launched by the information company RIA Novosti exhibits Shoigu disembarking from a helicopter in an unknown location and assembly officers inside what seems to be a command heart.
The Telegram channel of the Russian Defense Ministry mentioned Shoigu “listened to reports from commanders on the current situation and the actions of the Russian Armed Forces in the main operational areas at command posts.”
Shoigu can be seen conferring medals on a number of troopers, together with “the Gold Star Medals of the Hero of the Russian Federation and the Order of Courage,” in keeping with the Telegram put up. It’s unclear precisely which areas Shoigu visited and whether or not they had been inside Ukraine.
Putin says Russia will provide nuclear-capable missiles to Belarus
“In the next few months, we will transfer to Belarus the Iskander-M tactical missile systems, which, as you know, can use both ballistic and cruise missiles, both in conventional and nuclear versions,” Putin informed Lukashenko, in keeping with the Kremlin.
In a transcript of the assembly, Lukashenko expressed to Putin his “stress” and issues and over what he alleged are flights by United States and NATO planes “training to carry nuclear warheads” near Belarus’ border.
Lukashenko requested Putin to contemplate “a mirrored response” to the flights or to transform Russia’s Su-35 fighter jets, which are at the moment deployed to Belarus, in order that “they can carry nuclear warheads.”
Putin replied that though it’s doable to match the US flights, “there is no need,” and advised that as a result of Belarus’ navy has numerous Su-25 plane that may be transformed to nuclear-capable as an alternative.
The Iskander-M is a Russian constructed brief vary ballistic missile system that may carry typical or nuclear warheads with a most vary of as much as 500 KM (310 miles),in keeping with Janes Defense.
G7 broadcasts ban on import of Russian gold
Biden tweeted on the announcement Sunday in Germany, “The United States has imposed unprecedented costs on Putin to deny him the revenue he needs to fund his war against Ukraine. Together, the G7 will announce that we will ban the import of Russian gold, a major export that rakes in tens of billions of dollars for Russia.”
Biden additionally remarked on the unity of the G7 and NATO on Ukraine and the Russian invasion, telling German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that the G7 and NATO will keep collectively and never “splinter.”
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson mentioned the worth of permitting Russian President Vladimir Putin to “continue with his program of conquest” is much greater than the present price.
“The price of backing down, the price of allowing Putin to succeed, to hack off huge parts of Ukraine, to continue with his program of conquest, that price will be far, far higher. Everybody here understands that,” Johnson mentioned in an interview on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Germany.
CNN’s Allie Malloy, Mariya Knight, Jonny Hallam, Josh Pennington, Teele Rebane contributed to this report.