Russia "greets" the G-7 with an air strike on Kyiv that causes one death

The Ukrainian capital was again attacked on Sunday morning by Russian missiles, an event that usually coincides with high-level Western meetings (in this case, the G-7 leaders' summit that began yesterday in Germany).

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
26 June 2022 Sunday 19:54
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Russia "greets" the G-7 with an air strike on Kyiv that causes one death

The Ukrainian capital was again attacked on Sunday morning by Russian missiles, an event that usually coincides with high-level Western meetings (in this case, the G-7 leaders' summit that began yesterday in Germany). Two residential buildings in Kyiv were hit by bombs, attacks in which one civilian was killed and four people were seriously injured, according to Mayor Vitali Klichkó. “They try to intimidate us, spread panic and despair,” he said.

Since June 5, Kyiv had been safe from Russian bombardment, so the sense of security and trust among the population was increasing to the point that the majority of inhabitants ignored the anti-aircraft alarms. The City Council has urged to regain prudence and has reestablished the nightly and daily curfew between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. Yesterday's airstrike reinforces these calls for caution. According to the deputy, Oleksiy Goncharenko, Kyiv and its region received eleven X101 missiles in the morning, launched from TU-95 and TU-160 aircraft flying over the Caspian Sea, therefore very far from the Ukrainian theater of war.

Mayor Klichkó hinted that it is "probably a symbolic attack", associated with the start of the G-7 summit in Germany, to which Ukraine was invited. At the end of April, the Russian army already bombed this same area of ​​Kyiv, coinciding with the visit of the Secretary General of the United Nations, the Portuguese António Guterres, an attack that caused the death of a Ukrainian journalist from Radio Liberty.

For its part, Moscow ruled out that yesterday's was a deliberate attack against the population since the real objective was the Artiom weapons factory, "as a military infrastructure, an objective," according to a statement from the Ministry of Defense. This location would explain this third attack on the same neighborhood, in the northwest of the capital, where the factory, founded in the 19th century and which produces air-to-air and anti-tank combat missiles, operated.

The weekend marks a favorable point for the Russian campaign, which is why yesterday the Defense Minister, General Sergey Shoigú, made his first inspection visit to the military contingent deployed in Ukraine, without providing the chosen place, a visit complemented by the Imposition of Hero of Russia medals and orders for military valor.

It is taken on Saturday from the city of Severodonetsk, the de facto Ukrainian capital of Luhansk, which together with the province of Donetsk form the Donbass region. The conquest increases Russia's chances of securing the Donbass, whose "liberation" could allow Vladimir Putin to consider the "special military operation" in Ukraine completed, a hypothesis that, today, is not sufficient for the resumption of diplomatic negotiations . The Russian war machine regains momentum and yesterday other missiles hit the city of Cherkasi, in central Ukraine, an area that had not suffered any attack in the entire conflict.