Russia attacks Kyiv, Trump accuses Zelensky of Peace Talks

Russia attacks Kyiv, Trump accuses Zelensky of Peace Talks

In the early Thursday morning, Russia started a wave of fatal attacks on Kiev, only hours after US President Donald Trump accused his Ukrainian counterpart to disturb the peace talks with a new Tirade against Wolodymyr Selenskyj. According to the Ukrainian emergency services, 13 places in the Ukrainian capital were hit in drone and rocket attacks, with at least nine people being killed and injured.

attacks on Kyiv and the following

producers of CNN who were in Kiev reported air -raid shelter who echoed through the city for over six hours. Images from the emergency services showed buildings that were on fire in the attacked places. The engineers and rescue work, supported by rescue dogs, are looking for missing persons who are suspected under the ruins of a house destroyed by the attacks in the Sviatoshyn district, according to the Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko.

missing and injured

Klymenko said: "There is information about two children who could not yet be found at the scene." This is a "tragic" situation. The mayor of the city, Vitali Klitschko, had previously asked the population to look for protection. The Kiev military administration has now sent a all -clear signal. According to the emergency services, at least 42 people, including six children, were taken to the hospital.

massive attacks on several regions

Klymenko reported that eight regions of the country were the goal of a “massive combined Russian attack” who met Kiev, Zhytomyr, Dnipro, Kharkiw, Poltawa, Chmelnyzkyj, Sumy and Saporischschja. These attacks took place in the middle of a new public dispute between Trump and the Ukrainian President Selenskyj, especially about the future of Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula, illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.

political tensions and peace talks

As part of his efforts to achieve a peace agreement to terminate the Three Years' War, the US government has proposed to recognize Russian control over the Crimea, said sources to CNN. Such a step would mean a U-politics in the US policy of the past ten years and could disrupt the generally accepted consensus after the Second World War that international borders should not be changed by violence.

Zelensky's position

Selenskyj has repeatedly emphasized that Ukraine cannot accept this because it would violate the state's constitution. On Wednesday, Trump said that Selenskyj's position was "very harmful to the peace negotiations with Russia". "They are such stirring statements as that of Selenskyj who make it so difficult to end this war. He has nothing to be proud of!" He posted Truth Social.

Current developments in negotiations

Trump said after Vice President JD Vance threatened to cancel the negotiations shortly before. During a visit in India, he informed the reporters that a "very concrete proposal" was made both Russia and Ukraine and that it was now time to either "say yes or that the United States withdraw". Talks between Ukraine, the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany, which aimed to pave the way to an armistice, were downgraded to the level of the officials after Foreign Minister Marco Rubio had resigned.

conclusion and outlook

"The emotions have been cooked today," said Selenskyj on Wednesday on Twitter, while developing the day of the day produced fresh uncertainty about the diplomatic efforts to terminate the war. The Middle East Commissioner of the Trump Administration, Steve Witkoff, will probably visit Moscow on Friday to have talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.