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Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed reports that two rockets hit the Ukrainian capital.
“In the evening the enemy fired on Kyiv,” the mayor confirmed on social media on Thursday. “All services are available. Information about the victims is being clarified.”
Firefighters try to put out multiple fires following a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine. ((AP Photo/Felipe Dana))
RUSSIA LAUNCHES GOVERNING OFFENSIVE IN EASTERN UKRAINE AND DECLARES “ANOTHER STAGE” OF INVASION HAS BEGUN
Two blasts were heard in Kiev’s Shevchenkivskyi district, with residents of the city posting pictures and videos of the aftermath that showed smoke billowing over buildings in the city.
The strike comes on the same day that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, just days after Guterres met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (left) and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson chat while walking in downtown Kyiv. (Press Office of the President of Ukraine via AP)
“I think it was a very useful meeting,” CNN said after the meeting. “First of all, it was possible to say to President Putin the same things that I say in New York or can say here in Kyiv, which means that the Russian invasion violates the charter of the United Nations, constitutes a violation of the territorial integrity of the Ukraine and that this war must end as soon as possible.”
It also comes on the same day that President Biden announced that he is seeking $33 billion from Congress in additional military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.
“These resources will put much-needed equipment in the hands of Ukraine’s military and police and help NATO to deter and defend Russian aggression in the long term,” a government official said Thursday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Russia has ushered in a new phase of the war in recent days, turning its attention more to a full-scale offensive in eastern Ukraine.
But the blasts in Kyiv confirm that the Russian military has not completely abandoned attacks on the Ukrainian capital.