“Vladimir, stop!”: Trump goes with Putin after the deadly Kiev attack – my country

president Donald Trump On Thursday, he made rare criticism to Vladimir PutinThe Russian leader urged “to stop!” After a deadly barrage of attacks Kyivand Ukraine capital.

“I am not happy with Russian strikes on Kiev. It is not necessary, and a very bad timing.” Let’s accomplish the peace deal! “

Russia struck Kyiv with a barrage for hours of missiles and drones. At least nine people have been killed and more than 70 people were injured in the most aggressive of the city since last July. The strikes occurred just as the peace efforts reach the head.

Trump’s frustration is growing as a US -led effort to obtain a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia has not made progress.

Trump criticized at Ukrainian President Foludmir Zelinski on Wednesday He accused him of prolonging the “field of killing” of refusing to hand over the peninsula of the Crimea, which Russia occupies as part of a possible deal.

Zelenskyy repeated several times during the war that started when Russia invaded in February 2022 that recognition of the occupied territories because Russia is a red line for Ukraine.

Trump is scheduled to meet later on Thursday with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Juna Store to discuss the war in Ukraine, American definitions and other issues.

Zelinski said after the attack that he summarized his official journey to South Africa and returns to the house while the city was starting from the bombing that kept the residents at an edge of 11 hours, and Zelinski described it as “one of the most impressive (Russia).”

The mayor of KYIV VITALII Klitschko announced that Friday will be an official day of mourning in the capital.

The Ukrainian Air Force said that Russia launched 66 ballistic missiles, marine flights, four missiles from air to the surface, and 145 drones in Kiev and four other regions of Ukraine. Rescue workers with light bulbs roaming the charred rubble of the partially collapsed homes, where the blue lights of emergency vehicles lit up in the streets of the dark city.

Zelenskyy has repeated several times during a war of more than three years that the recognition of the occupied territories Cross is a red line for his country. On Thursday, Ukraine agreed to stop the US proposal 44 days ago, as a first step for negotiating peace, but Russia’s attacks continued.

He said in South Africa that the last attack means the future of negotiations “depends on Russia’s intention because it is in Moscow where they have to make a decision.”

While the talks have been continuing in recent weeks, Russia has hit the city of Sumi, killing more than 30 civilians to celebrate the Choose on Sunday, hit Odyssea with drones and Zaborzia exploded with strong slide bombs.

The head of the European Union’s foreign policy, Kaja Calas, said that the attack confirmed that the main obstacle to ending the war is Russia.

“While claiming to search for peace, Russia fired a fatal air strike at Kiev,” she wrote on social media. “This is not a pursuit of peace, it is ridicule.”

Senior US officials have warned that the Trump administration could soon give up its efforts to stop the war if the two sides do not give up.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrei Sibha said that the attack showed that Russian President Vladimir Putin was determined to pressure the advantage of his biggest army on the 1,000 -km of confrontation line (620 miles), where the momentum is currently carrying.

Sibha said on X.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Dennis Shmeisal indicated that since Russia’s invasion of February 2022 on a large scale of its neighbor, Russian attacks have killed about 13,000 civilians, including 618 children.

The government emergency service in Ukraine said at least 42 people were taken to the hospital after the attack on the residential suburbs of Kiev.

In the KYIV building that was almost completely destroyed, emergency workers removed the rubble with their hands, and saved a besieged woman who came out of the debris covered with white dust and suffered pain.

An elderly woman sat on a brick wall, a blood -stained face, and her eyes are installed on the ground in a shock while doctors tend to her wounds.

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Fires have been reported in many residential buildings said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the city’s military administration.

The attack, which started around one in the morning, struck at least five neighborhoods in Kyiv.

Oksana Peloire, a student, suffered a head injury in the attack. With blood leakage from her head made of her dressings, she said that she heard an explosion loudly after the air extinction and began seizing her things to escape to a shelter when another explosion caused the walls of her house and the lights collapsed.

“Frankly, I don’t even know how it will end all of this, it is very frightening,” Piluier said, referring to the war against Russia’s invasion. “I only think that if we can stop them in the battlefield, this is everything. There is no diplomacy that works here.”

The attack kept many people awake all night, as long as the multiple loud bangs resonate around the city, a flash of light permeates the sky. Families gathered in a public air strike, some of which bring their cat and dog.

Zelinski said in a telegram post that he would return to Kyiv after his meeting with South African President Cyril Ramavusa.

The Ukrainian leader was hoping to recruit more support in South Africa in efforts to end his country’s war with Russia, now in its fourth year.

The United Nations Coordination of Humanitarian Coordination said that Kiev’s attack was “another terrible violation of international humanitarian law.”

“Civilians should not be targets. This meaningless use should stop for strength,” he said in a statement.

Anastasia was Zzvrava, 33, and she was the mother of two children, protected on the basement after she had many explosions at her home. Her family was asleep when the first explosion broke their windows and sent kitchen appliances flying in the air. Fragments of the glass rained them while they were rushed to cover the corridor.

She said, “Then we got to the shelter because he was scary and dangerous at home.”

In the Sviatoshynskyi area in KyIV, the attack settled a two -storey residential building and multi -storey buildings close to two floors. Rescue work continued throughout the morning.

At a center close to schools that turned to schools, children helped parents cover the windows blown into plastic while others in a queue government compensation. Many stood in blood stained clothes, still vibrating.

–The Associated Press Michel Gumidi in Pretoria, South Africa, contributed to this report.