Turkey appeals to Russia and Ukraine for a ceasefire “as soon as possible”. The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in a television interview.
China also expresses “concern” about the latest developments in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which saw Moscow troops launch missiles at Ukrainian cities, killing at least 19 people. “We are concerned about the evolution of the situation and call on the parties concerned to adequately resolve the differences through dialogue and consultations,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said in the daily briefing, without expressing specific condemnations. China, she added, “is willing to work with the international community to continue to play a constructive role in easing tensions”
Russian forces attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia again in the night, in southern Ukraine: this was announced by the governor of the region, Oleksandr Starukh. According to reports from the Kyiv Independent, Moscow has targeted an infrastructure site. At least the 15 explosions that shook the city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzheppar said in a tweet, stressing that “a school, a medical institution and residential buildings” were targeted. And there is news of a victim.
The anti-aircraft sirens resounded this morning in Kiev and throughout Ukraine: the BBC and Tass report it, citing the Ukrainian news portal Strana. According to the portal, the country’s Emergency Service issued messages that explosions are highly likely during the day, stressing that citizens are advised to stay in shelters and not ignore air warnings.
Citing the TSN agency, Tass reports that explosions were heard in the Kiev region and in the cities of Rivne (west) and Kryvyi Rih (south). According to preliminary information, air defenses have been activated in the Kiev region.
Ukraine, inspections on the Crimean bridge after the attack
And in the meantime it rose to at least 19 dead and 105 wounded the toll from missile attacks launched yesterday by Russian forces on the territory of Ukraine: the state emergency service of the country has announced, according to reports from the Kyiv Independent.
Yesterday there rain of missiles over Kiev and the other Ukrainian cities was not over yet, the smoke from the craters had not yet dissipated, the death toll had not even begun, that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went on the phone to demand the condemnation of Russia, military support and l political intervention to his allies: to stop Vladimir Putin’s “terrorism” we need more weapons, more air defense systems, but above all those Atacms ground-to-ground missiles that the United States is hesitating to send.
The first phone call was with the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, with whom he agreed on an urgent meeting of the G7 to be held today by videoconference, starting at 2 pm, which will be attended by the Ukrainian president himself. Then Emmanuel Macron, Liz Truss, Antonio Guterres, and so on. And, after receiving in person the US ambassador in Kiev Bridget Brink, the assurances of Joe Biden also arrived: “We will remain at the side of the Ukrainians as long as it is needed and we will provide the Kiev forces with the necessary support to defend their country and their freedom”. In the evening Zelensky and Biden also spoke on the phone: the Ukrainian leader explained that “air defense is currently the number 1 priority”, the US president responded by promising the supply of “advanced air defense systems.”. But, according to the Washngton Post, the latest Russian attacks on Ukrainian cities and infrastructure, with the resulting civilian casualties, could also give a new boost to Kiev’s demand for longer-range weapons. An appeal so far fallen on deaf ears, with the Biden administration opposing delivering the much requested Atacms, Army Tactical Missile System, designed to hit up to 300 km away, four times the range of the missiles launched by the Himars, already supplied by the US to Ukrainian forces.
The White House’s refusal had so far been motivated by the need to avoid an escalation of the war, while Mitch McConnell, who leads the Republican minority in the Senate, had asked the administration to hand over the Atacms as well. Moscow has already warned to consider them a “red line” with which Washington would actually enter the war. But in light of the attacks launched by Putin in the last few hours, it is not clear whether the White House will review its position, the WP continues.
In an interview with CNN, the spokesperson for the US National Security CouncilJohn Kirby, however, said that the United States “will send new arms packages to Kiev in the coming days and will continue to help Ukraine defend itself for as long as necessary”.
Russia will have to take countermeasures due to the growing involvement of the United States and Europe in the conflict in Ukraine: he told the Russian news agency Ria Novosti Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. The deputy minister added that Moscow noted with regret that “the large-scale assistance underway in Kiev, the training of personnel of the armed formations of Ukraine on the territory of the alliance countries, the provision of intelligence, satellite images in real time, up to the determination of the objectives for the artillery attacks and the planning of the operations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, is involving a growing number of Western countries in the conflict (lined up) on the side of the Kiev regime “.
Meanwhile at the UN General Assembly an attempt is made to understand the degree of international isolation of Russia with a vote on a US-EU resolution on the Ukrainian territories that Moscow unilaterally annexed: the Russian request to proceed with a secret vote was rejected, even with the abstention of China and the contrary opinion of India. Moreover, Beijing is increasingly intolerant of the ally’s hazards, returning to invoke a de-escalation in the conflict and dialogue between the parties.
Source: Ansa
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