The huge Russian strike on the capital of Ukraine kills many people, and wounds dozens, as it seems that peace talks are suspended

Russia attacked Kiev with a barrage for hours of missiles and drones, killing at least eight people and wounding more than 70 in its bloodiest attack on the Ukrainian capital since last July. This came as it seemed that the peace talks were suspended.

Ukraine President Volodimir Zelinski said after the attack that he was cutting his official trip to South Africa and returning to their homes while Kiev was denied by the shelling that kept the residents on the edge of the abyss for 11 hours. Zelenskyy described the blow as “one of the most famous (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.

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

Russia claimed that it was targeting the defense industry in Ukraine, including plants that produced “missile and gunpowder fuel” in strikes, according to AFP.

The mayor of Kiev Vitaly Klitschko told Reuters that eight people were confirmed in the capital. The officials said earlier that nine were killed.

The attack came in weeks of peace negotiations, which seems to be crowned without agreement on the horizon and after hours Trump criticized in ZelinskiHe accused him of prolonging the “field of killing” of refusing to surrender the peninsula of the Crimea, which Russia occupies as part of a possible deal, although the Crimea “was” lost years ago. “

“This is perfectly corresponding to our understanding, which we have been saying for a long time,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday.

Repeat Zelenskyy several times during War more than three years The recognition of the occupied lands as Russian 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 last attack confirmed that the main obstacle to ending the war is Russia.

“While calling for peace, Russia fired a deadly 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 confrontation line, which is approximately 620 miles, as it currently carries momentum.

Sibha said at X.

According to Reuters, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova confirmed on Thursday that Zelinski refuses to make any concessions in the peace talks and will only agree to the ceasefire on his own conditions.

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.

In the KYIV residential building, which was almost completely destroyed on Thursday, emergency workers removed the rubble with their hands, and saved a besieged woman who came out of the wreckage covered with white dust and gave up 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.

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

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 public air strikes, some of which bring their pets.

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.

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