Amid Russia’s assertion that it is not targeting residential infrastructures, Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has alleged that one of the missiles hit a residential apartment in Kyiv.
“Kyiv, our splendid, peaceful city, survived another night under attacks by Russian ground forces, missiles. One of them has hit a residential apartment in Kyiv. I demand the world: fully isolate Russia, expel ambassadors, oil embargo, ruin its economy. Stop Russian war criminals!” he tweeted.
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Added Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal: “Today, a Russian missile hit an apartment building in Kyiv. Over the past two days, hospitals, kindergartens and orphanages in Ukrainian cities have been shelled. We demand from the world a decisive response and isolation of Russia for its criminal acts.”
Meanwhile, the Russian armed forces have established full control over the Ukrainian city of Melitopol in the south of the country, Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said. The Ukrainian military said that Russia had also lost 14 aircraft, eight helicopters and 102 tanks. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message posted on Twitter: “There’s a lot of fake information online that I called on our army to lay down arms and that there’s evacuation. I’m here. We won’t lay down our arms. We will defend our state.”
