Russian forces continued their assault on Ukrainian cities on Friday, hitting a building near a western cityairport with missiles, like world the leaders pushed for investigation of repeated Kremlin attacks on civilian targets, including airstrikes on schools, hospitals and residential areas.
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said on Telegram that several missiles hit a facility used to repair military aircraft and damaged a bus repair facility, although no casualties were immediately reported. The aircraft repair shop had suspended work before of the attack said the mayor.
The missiles that hit Lviv were launched from the Black Sea, but two of the six which were thrown were shot downthe Ukrainian air force the western command said on Facebook.
Not far from the Polish border and well behind the front lines, Lviv and its surroundings area have not been spared the attacks of Russia, the worst of who killed nearly three dozen people last weekend in a training center near the city. Meanwhile, the city is population increased by some 200,000 people Besides in Ukraine sought refuge there.
You could see smoke rising from the western part of the capital Kyiv after an early morning barrage on Friday. One person was killed and four injured after parts of a russian missile fell on a residential building in the northern part of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Friday morning, emergency services said.
services said in a statement that 12 people were rescued and 98 were evacuated from the five-story building.
In city after city around Ukraine, hospitals, schools and buildings where people research safety of the bombardment were attacked. Rescuers wanted for survivors in the ruins of a theater that served as a shelter when it was destroyed by a Russian airstrike in the beleaguered south city of Mariupol. And in Merefa, near the northeast city of Kharkiv, at least 21 people were killed when Russian artillery destroyed a school and a community center, local official noted.
In the north city of Chernihiv, dozens of the bodies were taken to the morgue in just one daytime.
american secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that US officials are assessing potential war crimes and whether intentional targeting of civilians by Russia is confirmed, there will be “massive consequences”.
United Nations political chief, Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo, also called for an inquiry into civilian casualties, reminding the UN Security Council that international humanitarian law bans direct attacks on civilians.
She said a lot of daily attacks hitting Ukrainian cities “would be indiscriminate” and involve use of “explosive weapons with a broad impact area.” DiCarlo said the devastation in Mariupol and Kharkiv “raise serious fears about the fate of millions of residents of Kyiv and other cities facing escalation of attacks.”
In Mariupol, hundreds of civilians would have taken refuge in a grand theater with columns in the citythe center when it was hit Wednesday by a Russian airstrike. More than a day later, there was no report of deaths and conflicting reports on whether anyone emerged from the rubble. Communications are interrupted through the city and the movement is difficult because of bombardments and other fighting.
Satellite imagery on Monday from Maxar Technologies showed huge white letters on sidewalk outside theater spelling out “CHILDREN,” in Russian “DETI”, to alert warplanes of vulnerable people people hidden inside.
“We hope and believe that some people who stayed in shelter under the theater might survive,” Petro Andrushchenko, a official with that of the mayor office, told the Associated Press (AP). He said the building had a relatively modern basement bomb shelter designed to resist airstrikes. Other officials said earlier that some people had obtained out.
Video and photos provided by Ukraine military showed that at least threestory building has been reduced to a roofless shell, with some exterior walls have collapsed.
Across the city, flurries were falling around the skeletons of burned-out apartment buildings, windowless and scarred by shrapnel as smoke rose above the horizon.
“We try to survive somehow,” said one Inhabitant of Mariupol, who gave only her first name, Helen. “My child is hungry. I have no know what give that he eats.”
She had tried to call son mother, who has been in a town 50 miles (80 kilometers) away. “I can’t tell him I’m alive, you understand. There’s no connection, just nothing,” she said.
cars, some with the “Z” symbol of the Russian invasion force in their windows led past Battery of ammunition boxes and artillery shells in a neighborhood controlled by Russian-backed separatists.
Russia military denied bombing the theater or anywhere else in Mariupol on Wednesday.
In Chernihiv, at least 53 people were taken to the morgues over 24 hours killed in the middle of heavy Russians air attacks and ground firelocal governor Viacheslav Chaus told Ukrainian television on Thusday.
Ukrainian emergency services said a mother, father and three of their childrenincluding 3-year-Old twins, were killed during the bombing of an inn in Chernihiv. The civilians were hiding in basements and shelters through the battlements city of 280,000.
“The city has never seen such nightmarish and colossal loss and destruction,” Chaus said.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it verified 43 attacks on hospitals and healthcare establishments, with 12 people killed and 34 wounded.
In remarks early Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was grateful to US President Joe Biden for Additional military help, but he won’t go into details new packagesaying it doesn’t have want Russia to know What to expect. He said when the invasion has begun on On February 24, Russia expected to find Ukraine as it did in 2014 when Russia seized Crimea without fight and supported the separatists as they took control of Eastern Donbass region.
Instead, he said, Ukraine had much stronger defenses than expected, and Russia “didn’t know what we had for defense Where how we prepared for the blow.”
In a joint statement, Foreign Ministers of the group of Seven leading economies blamed Putin of wage an “unprovoked and shameful war”, and called on Russia must comply with the international court of The order of the justice to stop son attack and withdraw his forces.
Ukraine and Russia reported this week some progress in negotiations. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that some negotiators were dividing into working groups.
Zelenskyy said he would not reveal Ukraine’s negotiations tactics.
“working more in silence that on television, radio or on Facebook,” Zelenskyy said. “I consider it the right way.”
While the details of Thursday’s talks were unknownune official in by Zelensky office told the AP that on Wednesday, the main the subject discussed was whether the Russian troops were going remain in breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine after the war and where the borders would be.
the official speaking on state of anonymity to discuss the sensitive talks, said Ukraine insisted on inclusion of one Where more Western nuclear powers in negotiations and on legally binding security guarantees for Ukraine.
In exchange, the official said, Ukraine was ready to discuss a neutral agreement military status.
Russia demanded that NATO pledge never to admit Ukraine into the alliance or station forces there.
The battles led more more than 3 millions people flee Ukraine, says the UN. the death ring remains unknownalthough Ukraine has declared thousands of civilians died.
Despite setbacks on the battlefield and punitive sanctions from the West, Putin has shown little sign of transferor. His government says it counts on China to help Russia resists blows to son economy.
Biden, who describes Putin as a “murderous dictator”, will make him clear to Chinese President Xi Jinping in a call Friday that China “will bear the responsibility for all the actions he takes to support Russian aggression,” Blinken told reporters. The two men are due to speak at 9 a.m. Eastern time (1300 GMT), the White House said.
China has declined condemn the action of Russia in Ukraine or call I tan invasion. This says recognizes Ukraine’s sovereignty, but that Russia has legitimate security concerns that should be addressed.
A Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs official met this week with Russian Ambassador to China for an exchange of views on counter-terrorism and security cooperation, the ministry said in A declaration.
Far sides
Japan and Australia announced separate measures sanctioning Russian individuals and organizations, including two oligarchs with ties to the Australian mining industry, as well as the arms exporter public Russian, son Ministry of Finance and son bank.
UN human rights office in Geneva said it recorded 2,032 civilian casualties in Ukraine – 780 killed and 1,252 wounded.
Some 3.2 millions civilians have fled to neighboring countries, the United Nations said.
A fourth consecutive day of talks between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators took place on Thursday via video link, but the Kremlin said an agreement had not yet been reached.
Kyiv and its Western allies say Russia launched the war to subjugate a neighbor Putin calls an artificial state. Russia says it’s carrier out a “special operation” to disarm Ukraine.
Russian forces continued their assault on Ukrainian cities on Friday, hitting a building near a western cityairport with missiles, like world the leaders pushed for investigation of repeated Kremlin attacks on civilian targets, including airstrikes on schools, hospitals and residential areas.
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said on Telegram that several missiles hit a facility used to repair military aircraft and damaged a bus repair facility, although no casualties were immediately reported. The aircraft repair shop had suspended work before of the attack said the mayor.
The missiles that hit Lviv were launched from the Black Sea, but two of the six which were thrown were shot downthe Ukrainian air force the western command said on Facebook.
Not far from the Polish border and well behind the front lines, Lviv and its surroundings area have not been spared the attacks of Russia, the worst of who killed nearly three dozen people last weekend in a training center near the city. Meanwhile, the city is population increased by some 200,000 people Besides in Ukraine sought refuge there.
You could see smoke rising from the western part of the capital Kyiv after an early morning barrage on Friday. One person was killed and four injured after parts of a russian missile fell on a residential building in the northern part of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Friday morning, emergency services said.
services said in a statement that 12 people were rescued and 98 were evacuated from the five-story building.
In city after city around Ukraine, hospitals, schools and buildings where people research safety of the bombardment were attacked. Rescuers wanted for survivors in the ruins of a theater that served as a shelter when it was destroyed by a Russian airstrike in the beleaguered south city of Mariupol. And in Merefa, near the northeast city of Kharkiv, at least 21 people were killed when Russian artillery destroyed a school and a community center, local official noted.
In the north city of Chernihiv, dozens of the bodies were taken to the morgue in just one daytime.
american secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that US officials are assessing potential war crimes and whether intentional targeting of civilians by Russia is confirmed, there will be “massive consequences”.
United Nations political chief, Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo, also called for an inquiry into civilian casualties, reminding the UN Security Council that international humanitarian law bans direct attacks on civilians.
She said a lot of daily attacks hitting Ukrainian cities “would be indiscriminate” and involve use of “explosive weapons with a broad impact area.” DiCarlo said the devastation in Mariupol and Kharkiv “raise serious fears about the fate of millions of residents of Kyiv and other cities facing escalation of attacks.”
In Mariupol, hundreds of civilians would have taken refuge in a grand theater with columns in the citythe center when it was hit Wednesday by a Russian airstrike. More than a day later, there was no report of deaths and conflicting reports on whether anyone emerged from the rubble. Communications are interrupted through the city and the movement is difficult because of bombardments and other fighting.
Satellite imagery on Monday from Maxar Technologies showed huge white letters on sidewalk outside theater spelling out “CHILDREN,” in Russian “DETI”, to alert warplanes of vulnerable people people hidden inside.
“We hope and believe that some people who stayed in shelter under the theater might survive,” Petro Andrushchenko, a official with that of the mayor office, told the Associated Press (AP). He said the building had a relatively modern basement bomb shelter designed to resist airstrikes. Other officials said earlier that some people had obtained out.
Video and photos provided by Ukraine military showed that at least threestory building has been reduced to a roofless shell, with some exterior walls have collapsed.
Across the city, flurries were falling around the skeletons of burned-out apartment buildings, windowless and scarred by shrapnel as smoke rose above the horizon.
“We try to survive somehow,” said one Inhabitant of Mariupol, who gave only her first name, Helen. “My child is hungry. I have no know what give that he eats.”
She had tried to call son mother, who has been in a town 50 miles (80 kilometers) away. “I can’t tell him I’m alive, you understand. There’s no connection, just nothing,” she said.
cars, some with the “Z” symbol of the Russian invasion force in their windows led past Battery of ammunition boxes and artillery shells in a neighborhood controlled by Russian-backed separatists.
Russia military denied bombing the theater or anywhere else in Mariupol on Wednesday.
In Chernihiv, at least 53 people were taken to the morgues over 24 hours killed in the middle of heavy Russians air attacks and ground firelocal governor Viacheslav Chaus told Ukrainian television on Thusday.
Ukrainian emergency services said a mother, father and three of their childrenincluding 3-year-Old twins, were killed during the bombing of an inn in Chernihiv. The civilians were hiding in basements and shelters through the battlements city of 280,000.
“The city has never seen such nightmarish and colossal loss and destruction,” Chaus said.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said it verified 43 attacks on hospitals and healthcare establishments, with 12 people killed and 34 wounded.
In remarks early Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was grateful to US President Joe Biden for Additional military help, but he won’t go into details new packagesaying it doesn’t have want Russia to know What to expect. He said when the invasion has begun on On February 24, Russia expected to find Ukraine as it did in 2014 when Russia seized Crimea without fight and supported the separatists as they took control of Eastern Donbass region.
Instead, he said, Ukraine had much stronger defenses than expected, and Russia “didn’t know what we had for defense Where how we prepared for the blow.”
In a joint statement, Foreign Ministers of the group of Seven leading economies blamed Putin of wage an “unprovoked and shameful war”, and called on Russia must comply with the international court of The order of the justice to stop son attack and withdraw his forces.
Ukraine and Russia reported this week some progress in negotiations. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that some negotiators were dividing into working groups.
Zelenskyy said he would not reveal Ukraine’s negotiations tactics.
“working more in silence that on television, radio or on Facebook,” Zelenskyy said. “I consider it the right way.”
While the details of Thursday’s talks were unknownune official in by Zelensky office told the AP that on Wednesday, the main the subject discussed was whether the Russian troops were going remain in breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine after the war and where the borders would be.
the official speaking on state of anonymity to discuss the sensitive talks, said Ukraine insisted on inclusion of one Where more Western nuclear powers in negotiations and on legally binding security guarantees for Ukraine.
In exchange, the official said, Ukraine was ready to discuss a neutral agreement military status.
Russia demanded that NATO pledge never to admit Ukraine into the alliance or station forces there.
The battles led more more than 3 millions people flee Ukraine, says the UN. the death ring remains unknownalthough Ukraine has declared thousands of civilians died.
Despite setbacks on the battlefield and punitive sanctions from the West, Putin has shown little sign of transferor. His government says it counts on China to help Russia resists blows to son economy.
Biden, who describes Putin as a “murderous dictator”, will make him clear to Chinese President Xi Jinping in a call Friday that China “will bear the responsibility for all the actions he takes to support Russian aggression,” Blinken told reporters. The two men are due to speak at 9 a.m. Eastern time (1300 GMT), the White House said.
China has declined condemn the action of Russia in Ukraine or call I tan invasion. This says recognizes Ukraine’s sovereignty, but that Russia has legitimate security concerns that should be addressed.
A Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs official met this week with Russian Ambassador to China for an exchange of views on counter-terrorism and security cooperation, the ministry said in A declaration.
Far sides
Japan and Australia announced separate measures sanctioning Russian individuals and organizations, including two oligarchs with ties to the Australian mining industry, as well as the arms exporter public Russian, son Ministry of Finance and son bank.
UN human rights office in Geneva said it recorded 2,032 civilian casualties in Ukraine – 780 killed and 1,252 wounded.
Some 3.2 millions civilians have fled to neighboring countries, the United Nations said.
A fourth consecutive day of talks between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators took place on Thursday via video link, but the Kremlin said an agreement had not yet been reached.
Kyiv and its Western allies say Russia launched the war to subjugate a neighbor Putin calls an artificial state. Russia says it’s carrier out a “special operation” to disarm Ukraine.