Ukraine’s president slams US for ‘weak’ response after Russia’s earlier lethal assault on his hometown, Kryvyi Rih.
A number of folks have been injured in Russia’s air strikes on Kyiv in addition to the south of Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised the US for a “weak” response to the assault on his hometown that killed 18 folks, together with 9 youngsters.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned the air strikes on the capital early on Sunday precipitated fires in nonresidential buildings in three districts and left three folks injured.
Individually, Vitaliy Kim, governor of the southern Mykolaiv area, mentioned Russia launched a missile assault at about 10pm (19:00 GMT) on Saturday, damaging a number of homes and injuring 4 folks.
The whole nation was underneath air alert from 02:00 GMT after the nation’s air power warned of an assault, together with on areas bordering Poland, forcing the NATO member to scramble plane to make sure air security.
Poland’s army mentioned it and allied forces had taken to the skies “because of the intensive exercise of long-range aviation of the Russian Federation” throughout the border in western Ukraine, with ground-based air defence programs on excessive alert.
“The steps taken are geared toward making certain safety within the areas bordering the threatened areas.”
Ukraine’s air defence items shot down 13 of 23 missiles and 40 of 109 drones launched by Russia in an in a single day assault, the air power mentioned on Sunday. It mentioned 53 drones have been misplaced, in reference to the Ukrainian army utilizing digital warfare to redirect them.
The Russian Ministry of Defence mentioned 11 Ukrainian drones have been intercepted and destroyed in a single day over the Kursk, Belgorod and Rostov areas.
Assault on Kryvyi Rih
Earlier, a Russian assault on Friday killed no less than 18 folks, together with youngsters as younger as three, in Kryvyi Rih.
The Russian missile struck a residential space close to a playground within the central Ukrainian metropolis.
In an emotional assertion on social media, Zelenskyy named every of the 9 youngsters killed within the assault, slamming the US embassy for what he known as a “weak” assertion.
US Ambassador Bridget Brink had posted a message on X on Friday, saying she was “horrified” by the assault, with out naming Russia because the aggressor.
“Sadly, the response of the American embassy is unpleasantly shocking: such a robust nation, such a robust folks – and such a weak response,” Zelenskyy wrote.
Oleksandr Vilkul, the pinnacle of Kryvyi Rih’s army administration, mentioned three days of mourning had been declared beginning April 7.
The assaults got here as US President Donald Trump has been pushing for a partial ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, greater than three years into Moscow’s full-scale invasion.
Zelenskyy mentioned the assault on Kryvyi Rih confirmed Russia had little interest in stopping its full-scale invasion.
