Secretary-General António Guterres is “deeply shocked” by Russia’s more widespread airstrikes since O start of the war in Ukraine on Monday (10), informed a UN spokesperson.
“This constitutes another unacceptable escalation of the war and, as always, civilians are paying the highest price,” UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.
Russian attacks
Russia fired long-range missiles at Ukrainian cities during peak hours on Monday morning, killing civilians and shutting down power and heat infrastructure in what President Vladimir Putin said was revenge for Ukrainian attacks, which included the destruction of a bridge linking Russian territory to Crimea.
On Monday (10), according to the Ukrainian state emergency service, at least 11 civilians died and 64 were injured. The Ukrainian government, however, has confirmed 10 dead so far.
The missiles hit busy intersections, parks and tourist sites in central Kiev with an intensity never before seen even as Russian forces tried to capture the capital at the start of the war.
Explosions were also reported in Lviv, Ternopil and Zhytomyr in western India. UkraineDnipro and Kremenchuk in the center of Ukraine Zaporizhzhia in the south and Kharkiv in the east.
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a televised speech in which he claimed the attacks on “Ukraine’s energy, military and communications infrastructure” following the destruction of the Kerch Bridge in Crimea.
“Several explosions in the Shevchenskivskyi district in the center of the capital,” Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko Klitschko declared on the messaging app Telegram.
A Reuters witness saw a huge cart driver at one of the downtown intersections and nearby cars completely destroyed, blackened and littered with shrapnel.
Explosions were also reported in Lviv, Ternopil and Zhytomyr, in western Ukraine, and in Dnipro, in the central region.
Russia abandoned an initial advance on Kiev in the face of fierce resistance reinforced by Western weapons.
Since then, Moscow and its proxies have focused on the south and on Donbas, an eastern territory made up of Luhansk and neighboring Donetsk, mobilizing crushing artillery in some of Europe’s heaviest ground fighting since World War II.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said eleven infrastructure facilities in eight regions and in the capital Kiev had been damaged by Russian attacks.
“As of 11 am (local time), 11 major infrastructure facilities in eight regions and the city of Kyiv had been damaged,” Shmygal explained on the Telegram messaging app.
Germany said a building housing its consulate in Kiev was hit in Monday’s attack, although it has not been used since the war began on February 24.
The European Union condemned Monday’s “barbaric and cowardly attacks” on Ukraine.
Security camera footage showed shrapnel and flames engulfing a glass-bottomed walkway in a leafy valley in the center of the city, one of Kiev’s most popular tourist sites. A pedestrian fled the explosion.
Reuters later saw a huge crater under the bridge, which was damaged but remained standing.
(From Jonathan Landy and Max Hunder,
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