Russia has once again chosen barbarism against the civilian population of Ukraine. In the early hours of this Sunday, Moscow brought to the extreme the ability of Ukrainian anti -aircraft defenses by launching a new offensive with more than 800 drones, the largest in three and a half years of war, and 13 missiles, four of them ballistic. The attack crossed the country from western to east and from north to south. One of the great objectives of the operation, executed for about seven hours, was kyiv, the capital, where at least two people died in a housing building, a young woman and her son of just one year. President Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, raised the number of fatalities throughout the country to four, to which 44 injured are added. Russian mass bombardment aroused the condemnation of the international community again.
The remains of one of the unmanned devices intercepted in the capital also impacted full on a government building, on the plants where the Cabinet of Ministers gathers. It is the first time in three and a half years of large -scale invasion that Russia reaches the executive’s units. A new varapalo to any advance in possible peace negotiations, three weeks after the meeting held in Alaska between the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
Zelenski, who spoke by Telefono with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, at the head of European allies who support Ukraine, said that the attack demonstrates the desire to “extend the war” by Moscow, and urged the United States to impose new sanctions against Russia and the rest of the partners to implement the security guarantees agreed in the recent Summit of Paris. “It is a deliberate crime and an extension of the war,” said the Ukrainian leader in a message on his Telegram profile.
The president of the European Commission, the German Ursula von der Leyen, described the Russian offensive and assured that Europe will harden the sanctions. The British prime minister, Keir Starmer described the attacks against the civilian population and Ukrainian infrastructure as “cowardly”. “They show that (Russian president Vladimir Putin) believes that he can act with impunity. He does not take peace seriously,” said the laborist.
Wave attack
A few minutes before ten o’clock on Saturday night, the alert systems began to sound in the streets of the center and east of the country. The notice before the arrival of a possible bombing remained for almost the entire morning of Sunday. A few hours after the first alarms and for a while, the mermaids were also heard in the Western Strip of Ukraine, where a row of unmanned devices was directed.
kyiv concentrated the onslaught of a large part of the drones-mostly of the Geran-2 model, improved version of the Iranians Shahed-thrown from the Russian west border. As detailed by the Ukraine Air Force, some of these bomb vehicles also came from Belarus. The direct impact of these devices or fragments launched after their interception through the anti -aircraft defense systems caused the death of at least two people, a young woman and her one -year -old son, found among the rubble of one of the most damaged buildings, in the district of Sviatoshin.
Twelve hours after the Russian drone hit the posterior facade of this property, the smell of burning persisted. While firefighters described the floors most affected by the shaking, naked and devoid of wall to the outside, some neighbors entered to collect belongings in the safe plants, while others lined up in the patio park without knowing if they could soon return to their homes.
Yaroslav, 22, that the drone – “a Shahed” says, says in reference to the best known model in the street – entered between the fourth and eighth plants. He was not there tonight, but his father and grandparents did. They live on the ninth floor. “A girl and her child, one or two years old,” says this young man. “My father has wounds in one foot and in his hand by broken crystals,” he continues, “they have been lucky, caught them at home. They went down to the first after the explosion and it was all smoke.” He doesn’t know where they will spend the night.
The mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko, also communicated the death of an old woman while she was in a shelter, in the Darnitsia neighborhood, on the left bank of the Dnieper River, although the causes of her death are unknown at the moment. The offensive about the city also left about twenty people injured. Among them there is a pregnant woman, who gave birth after being transferred to a hospital, and remains in serious condition, according to the Ukraine Suspilne television network. Drones also caused huge damage in several real estate, one of them from 18 floors, and parking areas. In the final stretch of the offensive, Moscow also launched on the capital Balistic missiles Iskander.
Coup to the government district
First thing of the day, already lifted the curfew and while the first workers went out, you could still see the long columns of smoke in the sky of kyiv. One of those smokes came from an administrative building in the city center, in the district of Pecherskii, reached by the remains of an intercepted non -manned apparatus. As confirmed by the country’s prime minister, Yulia Sviridenko, one of the attacks damaged the government building, where the Executive meets, both on the roof and in the upper floors.
The head of government moved a few hours later and once the fire was stifled to the administrative units. The images captured by Sviridenko show an wing of the building completely razed by the flames. “The world must respond to this destruction not only with words, but with facts,” he said.
Other cities of Ukraine were also objective during the night of the drones, in a first wave, and Russian ballistic arsenal, later. Among them, Zaporiyia, with 15 injured, several houses and a damaged nursery; Sumi, where four people were injured, including two minors; Odesa, a city in front of the Black Sea in which a high -height building collapsed, and Krivói Rog, hometown of President Ukraine, where commercial stores were reduced to ashes.
In total, according to a statement from the Ukraine Air Force, Russia launched 805 drones, a record figure, and 13 missiles during the night. The spokesman for this body, Yurii Ihnat, acknowledged in a television appearance that the current anti -aircraft defense systems cannot cover such a large country without impacts. “It’s practically impossible. No country in the world can do it,” Ihnat said.
The Russian Army, from shooting positions in the Russian Federation and the busy Crimean Peninsula, was hammering the Ukrainian defenses with waves of drones, at a rate in crescendo As the night advanced. He modus operandi From this operation, as the monitoring networks of these bombings, specialists after three and a half years of invasion pointed out, pursued saturate the Ukrainian defensive batteries before the missile launch. So far in September, according to kyiv’s data, Russia has launched about 2,000 drones and more than 50 missiles.
Moscow, on the other hand, communicated in the morning that knocked 69 Ukrainian drones during the night.
The Russian mass attack against the civilian population Ukraine raises a new obstacle in the dialogue to initiate a possible negotiating process. Attacks such as the perpetrated this morning have been criticized by Trump since he arrived at the White House in this second term. The Republican leader said this week “very disappointed” with Putin after fulfilling the deadline he had given to sit down to dialogue, without the Russian president having even pronounced.
Moscow has also hit the Ukrainian territory 48 hours after the coalition of volunteers, formed by more than thirty kyiv allies, announced in a meeting in Paris its willingness to provide security guarantees to Ukraine once the peace is seal. At least 26 countries in this alliance would participate in a deployment of interposition troops. On this, Putin said Friday that, if that display of troops occurs, any western soldier could be a “legitimate objective.”
Meanwhile, on the Combat Front, according to the information released in the last hours by President Zelenski, Russia has grouped some 100,000 uniformed in the direction of Pokrovks, in Donetsk, a key place to advance the total control of the province and, therefore, of the Donbás region.
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