On Tuesday evening, sirens sounded again in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and in central and northern Ukraine. Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko called it a “mass attack”. Meanwhile, images of drone attacks on the Russian capital Moscow are doing the rounds on the internet. They are speculated to be in response to last night’s heavy beatings against Ukraine.
A skyscraper in Kiev went up in flames. At least one person was killed by falling debris from a destroyed Russian missile. Another person is in hospital and two others are injured, Klitschko said on Telegram.
Kiev’s military administration said the top two floors of the apartment building had been destroyed and people could still be buried under the rubble. Falling debris from rockets hit several parts of the capital, including the historic districts of Podil and Pecherskyi. Residents sought shelter in the metro:
Attack on Moscow
According to Russian information, the Russian capital Moscow was also the target of a drone attack on Tuesday morning. “This morning, at dawn, a drone strike caused minor damage to several buildings,” Mayor Sergei Sobyanin told Telegram. The RIA agency reported this, citing the rescue of an injured person.
Some residents of a building in the south of the city would have to leave their homes and be taken to safety, police said. A drone allegedly entered an apartment through a window.
Several Russian Telegram news outlets say four to 10 drones were shot down on Tuesday morning. A video is circulating online showing a drone also flying over the posh suburb of Rublyovka – the so-called Beverly Hills of the wealthy Russians. Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin also lives there.
Russia’s ultimate defeat
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said defeat of Russia was the main goal of his country’s impending counter-offensive. “We must shake the confidence of the Russians that they can win this war. Russia must and will lose this war,” Reznikov told the newspapers of the German media group Funke and the French newspaper Quest-France (Tuesday editions).
“We will liberate all temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine until we restore the internationally recognized 1991 borders.” This includes the Crimean Peninsula as well as the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Resnikov sees real military progress for Ukraine in the summer. “And in two or three places on the battlefield, both in the south and in the east. New waves of Russian soldiers will flee into our territory,” he told the newspapers.
Ukraine insists on delivery of fighter jets
Against this background, Ukraine continues to push for the delivery of air defense fighter jets. “If Britain and Germany pooled their capabilities for the Eurofighter, it would be an important step,” Resnikov said. “There is already an international coalition of battle tanks with the core model of the German Leopard 2 and American Abrams and British Challengers.
Likewise, we could form a jet fighter coalition with the core model F-16, Eurofighters and Gripen.” Gripen jets are produced by the Swedish company Saab. “First of all, we would welcome it if Germany participates in the training of our pilots on Eurofighters.” Great Britain, which offers training, just like Germany does not have the F-16 fighter jets desired by Ukraine.
Source: Krone
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