two shells impacted this Thursday in Kyivcoinciding with the visit of the UN secretary generalAntonio Guterres. This was announced by the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitali Klitchkó, and was also witnessed by witnesses who heard the explosions.
Specifically, the missiles fell on Tatarskaya street, near the hotel where the Secretary General of the United Nations was staying, and affected several residential buildings. One of them reached the apartment where the Ukrainian journalist from ‘Radio Liberty’, Viera Gyrich, lived. His body has been found lifeless this Friday. In addition, there are ten wounded.
“Tonight, the enemy fired on kyiv. There have been two hits in the Shevchenkivski district. All emergency services are on site. Information about possible victims is being clarified,” the mayor said on his Telegram channel.
Mijailo Podoliak, adviser to President Volodímir Zelenski, also reported on the bombing and stressed that it occurred during Guterres’ visitwhich this week visited Russia and met with Vladimir Putin.
The mayor of kyiv has stated that the attack is “a Souvenir postcard” by Moscow for Guterres, as it happened just a day after his meeting with Putin in the Kremlin. “This is a salute to Guterres. Putin has shown him the middle finger with the destruction of these civil buildings,” Vitali Klichkó denounced.
Guterres, who met this Thursday with Zelenskystated that the UN is doing “everything possible” to evacuate civilians of the metallurgical plant Azovstalthe last stronghold of Ukrainian resistance in the beleaguered port city of Mariupol. A thousand civilians remain refugees in that infrastructure along with some 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers.
“We do everything possible to make it a reality. My first and only priority is the people who suffer and who have to be rescued,” Guterres said at a press conference, after his meeting with Zelenski, which took place after the meeting with the Russian president, an order that did not please kyiv.
The Security Council will discuss the attack during Guterres’ visit
The Security Council has qualified the attacks of “very worrying” and will discuss it next week. “During the secretary-general’s visit to kyiv, there were missile attacks on the city and this is a matter of great concern,” said British Ambassador Barbara Woodward, who chairs the Security Council for April. Likewise, the diplomat explained that her delegation has been in contact with the UN Secretary General, and that both Guterres and his team are doing well.
“Russia has already broken all the red lines. He has implied that he has no limits,” said Jesús Núñez Villaverde, co-director of the IECAH at Al Rojo Vivo.
For its part, Russia has admitted bombing kyivbut it is justified by saying that they have been carried out on military objectives.
Source: Lasexta
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