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Reporters saw a burning building in the bombed area, in the first Russian attacks on kyiv since mid-April.
“In the afternoon, the enemy fired on kyiv. Two attacks on the Chevchenkovsky district”, confirmed the mayor Vitali Klitschko, adding that “the information regarding the victims is being clarified”.
“Missile attacks in the center of kyiv during the official visit of Antonio Guterres”, criticized Mijailo Podoliak, advisor to the Ukrainian president, on Twitter.
Guterres: “The whole civilized world must surround Ukraine”
“Yesterday, I was sitting at a big table in the Kremlin and today, there are explosions above my head,” he said ironically. “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”, asked the head of the presidential administration, Andrii Iermak.
Iermak asked to deprive Russia of its veto power 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.
Ukrainians accuse Russian forces from committing crimes against the civilian population in those locations. 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 at Moscow.
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