War in Ukraine: Neighborhood in Kyiv bombed, four wounded

District at Kyiv Russian forces bombed today, leaving at least four people slightly injured. Many houses in the area were damaged, it became known from converging sources.

Artillery fire broke out early this morning in the Nivki district, located in the part of Kiev which is about five kilometers from the front line.

A house was completely destroyed, many apartment buildings were damaged by the debris, while the windows of houses and shop windows were broken.

By bombing four people were slightly injured, as announced by the local authorities of the Ukrainian capital.

“The enemy bombed again (…) The Shevchenkivsky district was targeted in the morning. “Rescuers are currently on the scene trying to put out the fires that have broken out in houses and high-rise apartment buildings,” they pointed out.

“I had just come back in, after I had gone out to smoke, when suddenly the ‘boom’ collapsed on the roof,” said Volodymyr Ochrymenko, who lives in one of the affected houses.

“I lost consciousness for a while before I got up. “There were three of us, with my sister and her husband, in the house where we share two families (…) no one was killed”, added the retiree.

“I just got some documents and left before the house caught fire,” his sister was quoted as saying by AFP and an Athenian News Agency.

Kyiv urges West to give it ‘offensive weapons’

Meanwhile, the chief of staff of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky urges Westerners to provide his country with “offensive weapons”, “a means of deterrence” against Moscow, a day before a special NATO summit on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which Zelensky addresses via video link .

“Our armed forces and our people are holding fast, showing superhuman courage, but no one can win a war without offensive weapons, without medium-range missiles that can be a deterrent,” Andriy Germak said in a video posted yesterday. at night on the Telegram.

“Without a Lend-lease program, we can not defend ourselves,” he said, referring to the US-led armaments program at the start of World War II to help its allies militarily.

“It is impossible to defend ourselves effectively for a long time without a reliable anti-aircraft defense system capable of shooting down long-range enemy missiles.”added Germak.

However, “they do not give us such”, he complained. “As they do not give us planes”noted, a request which is currently rejected by the West that does not want to intervene militarily in the war in Ukraine for fear that such a thing would cause the spread of the conflict.

“This fear of escalation is understandable, but it will not help,” Germak said.

The situation on the ground is very difficult in many Ukrainian cities, mainly in Mariupol, the city-port in the southeast, which is besieged by Russian forces and where about 100,000 civilians remain trapped, according to Zelensky.

Source: News Beast

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