The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin “stop” attacks against Ukraine as kyiv extends for the greatest Russian attack in months.
In a publication on its social media platform Truth Social, Trump wrote: “I am not happy with Russian attacks on kyiv. It is not necessary and very bad time.
“Vladimir, stop! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Let’s make the peace agreement!”
The authorities said that at least eight people died in the attack and that Moscow had launched 70 missiles and 145 drones in Ukraine.
While the Russian missiles rained in kyiv during the night in Moscow’s greatest attack against the capital of Ukraine in months, Anna Balamutova grabbed their children and ran to a shelter, saying that they were saved by a “miracle.”
Outside his home in the kyiv Svathyshynsky district, rescuers worked through the debris of very destroyed buildings. A woman sat in a stool, stroking a body covered with a blue sheet that lay on the grass.
Balamutova, who left the city of Pavlograda more east in the war, since he was increasingly attacked, said that his family was lucky to have reached a nearby shelter.
“If I lived further, I would not have been able to physically drive with two children … to pick them up in the middle of the night and run from ballistic missiles,” said the 36 -year -old man.
“It was just a miracle that saved us due to the fact that the alarm was raised and we went down immediately.”
He ran with his five -year -old girl during a wave of explosions.
“People ran in blood, some were taken, shouting, children, it was very terrible … I have no explanation [for] How can this happen in the modern world, ”he said.
Ukraine has been beaten incessantly by Russia since Moscow invaded in February 2022, with Thursday’s attack in a series of mortal strikes in civil areas in recent weeks.
He arrived hours after Trump criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for not giving Crimea, attached to Russia in 2014, Moscow as part of a peace agreement.
Olen Davydiuk, who was awakened by explosions and ran outside when “the windows and doors began to fall,” he said he had no doubt about Russia’s objectives.
“Why is Russia doing this? Well, you want to destroy us, that’s all,” said the 33 -year -old lawyer, with debris on the street behind her. “He wants to destroy children in the front and we in the back.”
Moscow said he had shot at military objectives and that the “objectives of the strike have been achieved.”
Bodies in the street
While rescuers worked through the debris of blocks of floors of the Soviet era, residents, mostly older people and many families with children, sat in banks outside, some holding their belongings.
A woman, blood and bruises on her face, grabbed her little dog when she told a rescuer that someone was under the rubble.
Another body lay on the grass outside, covered by a white sheet.
Near, a psychologist attended a woman with a white shirt that held both hands on her mouth, crying.
Zelensky shortened the visit to South Africa on Thursday and said that more than 80 people had been injured in the attack. The authorities warned that the death toll may increase, with more people who are believed to be trapped under the debris.
The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, said that 31 people were hospitalized, including five children. He declared a day of mourning in the city for Friday.
Emergency services published images of rescuers looking for people through the debris in high -rise apartments blocks in the dark, however with stretchers through tight and destroyed stairs.
A woman, who wore a stretcher, shouted that her leg was injured when they put her in an ambulance. A group of rescuers in red jackets covered a body with a gold sheet under the reflectors.
kyiv has been attacked throughout the invasion of more than three years in Moscow, but blows with large death tolls are more rare.
Balamutova said he had expected kyiv to be a safer place for his family than his native paveled, because the city “has shelters, at least the subway.”
“In the end it turned out that you can’t escape from war anywhere. It doesn’t matter where you go.”
