The capital of Ukraine was hit this April 28 with missiles during the visit of the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, who promises the evacuation of Mariupol, while Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, assured that “Putin wanted to humiliate the UN”.
Supposedly, the reporters saw a burning building in the bombed area, during the first Russian attacks on kyiv since mid-April, and some videos were posted on social media, of the alleged attack:
“In the afternoon, the enemy fired on kyiv. Two attacks on the Chevchenkovsky district”, Mayor Vitali Klitschko confirmed, adding that “the information regarding the victims is being clarified”.
“Missile attacks in the center of kyiv during the official visit of Antonio Guterres”, Mijailo Podoliak, adviser to the Ukrainian president, criticized on Twitter.
The Russian bombing of kyiv during the visit of the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, was intended to objective “to humiliate” the international organization, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski said Thursday.
These bombings “say a lot about the efforts of Russian leaders to humiliate the UN and everything that this organization represents,” Zelensky said in a video posted on Telegram.
Guterres: “The entire civilized world must surround Ukraine”
“Yesterday, I was sitting at a big table in the Kremlin and today there are explosions above my head.” “It is proof that we need a quick victory over Russia and that the entire civilized world must unite around Ukraine. We have to act quickly. More weapons, more humanitarian efforts, more aid”, requested the head of the presidential administration, Andrii Iermak.
Iermak asked to deprive Russia of its veto right in the UN Security Council. The UN secretary general arrived in Ukraine on Thursday, where he plans to visit Bucha and Irpin, on the outskirts of kyiv.
The Ukrainians accuse the Russian forces of committing crimes against the civilian population in those towns. Guterres met with the Ukrainian president and lamented that the Security Council had “failed” to end the war, which started on 24 February with the Russian invasion. On Tuesday, Guterres also met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Guterres promises to evacuate Mariupol
The UN Secretary General António Guterres today admitted the international community’s failure to stop the war in Ukraine, while pledging to do “everything possible” to evacuate civilians from the Azvostal steel mill in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
“We do everything possible to make it come true. My first and only priority is the people who are suffering and the citizens who have to be rescued,” he told a news conference in kyiv after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Guterres reached an agreement in principle with the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, on Tuesday regarding the participation of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the evacuation of Azvostal, where around a thousand people remain refugees. along with about 2.000 Ukrainian soldiers.
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