A Russian bombardment left at least four dead in Kyiv – Liberation

40 drones, 400 ballistic missiles and a new night of flood of fire in the Ukrainian sky. Russia bombed Ukraine on the night of Thursday, June 5 to Friday, June 6, causing the death of at least four people in Kyiv, according to President Zelensky, who asked for a reaction « Decisive » from his allies to these attacks, in order to « Increase the cost of war for the attacker » Russian.

“Russia must be held responsible. From the first minutes of this war, they bombed towns and villages to destroy lives ”said the head of state again. « Now is the moment when America, Europe and the world can stop this war together by putting pressure on Russia »he added in a message on social networks.

In Kyiv, among the damage reported as a result of explosions and debris falls, a fire broke out in a residential building, said the same source. According to civil and military authorities in the city, metro routes have been damaged by Russian bombing. The national railway company has mentioned damage to rails in the region, affecting trains traffic serving the southern periphery of Kyiv.

Outside the capital, several regions have reported significant Russian bombings. In Lontsk (west), not far from the Polish border, « A massive attack of missiles and drones » has « Partially destroyed » A residential building, making five injured, according to the head of the regional military administration Ivan Rudnytsky on Telegram.

Also to the west, the Ternopil region has undergone « The most massive air attack to date »with « Multiple strikes » According to Viatcheslav Negoda, head of regional military administration. He later reported an assessment of five injured. « Industrial installations and infrastructure have been affected »said the mayor of Ternopil, Serguiï Nadal. « Certain parts of Ternopil are without electricity and the water distribution pressure has been reduced due to power cuts ».

In the center of the country, by the Dniepr river, « Three Russian missiles were slaughtered on our territory and 22 drones »said the governor of the Cherkassy region, Igor Taburets, adding that the strikes had no victims. For his part, Kyiv said that he had struck at least three fuel deposits on the Russian air base in Engels, in the Saratov region, and said that he also touched that of Diaguilevo, in the Riazan region.

Despite calls from Ukraine and Westerners at the immediate ceasefire and The pressure exerted by Donald Trump To start talks and put an end to the conflict, the fights show no sign of appeasement, more than three years after the launch of the Russian military offensive on a large scale. Russia currently controls around 20 % of this neighboring country, including Crimea, peninsula annexed in 2014.

After a call with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, June 4, the American president warned that Moscow counted retaliated with the daring attack launched last weekend by Ukraine against Russian bombers, up to thousands of kilometers from its borders. Moscow also accused Kyiv on Tuesday of being behind the explosions causing last weekend the collapse of two bridges And trains accidents that left seven dead and more than a hundred injured, including children, in the Russian regions of Koursk and Brita, borders of Ukraine.

During the night from Thursday to Friday, a locomotive derailed in the Russian region of Belgorod, a border of Ukraine, without making a victim, said the Russian railway company. The governor of the region, Viatcheslav Gladkov, said that an « explosive device had been placed under the rails », on Telegram.

Diplomaticly, Two cycles of negotiations carried out in Istanbul Between Kyivet Moscow on a truce, encouraged by Washington, did not bring the positions together. During the second meeting on Monday under Turkish mediation, the Russian delegation gave Kyiv a list of requests including the withdrawal of its forces from four regions whose Moscow claims the annexation, the renunciation of Ukraine to integrate NATO and the limitation of the size of its army. Conditions qualified Wednesday by Volodymyr Zelensky from« Ultimatums » unacceptable.

The only result of these discussions: Russians and Ukrainians must proceed this weekend to a new exchange of 500 prisoners of war from each camp, after a previous exchange of 1,000 people on each side in May. Kyiv and Moscow are also agreed to hand over the bodies of thousands of soldiers killed.