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The onslaught of missile strikes on various Ukrainian locations on Monday, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was in retaliation for “terrorist actions” on Russian soil. He also issued a warning that much more severe attacks would follow.
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Putin made his comments during a meeting of the Russian Security Council as the seven-month-old war in Ukraine experienced a significant escalation with the targeting of city centers and infrastructure nationwide.
The attacks around the nation resulted in 14 fatalities and 97 injuries, according to the interior ministry of Ukraine on Monday night. In his evening address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported 12 fatalities and more than 80 wounded.
World leaders immediately condemned the act, using terms like “terrorism” and “war crimes.”
According to the administration in Kiev, Russia launched more than 80 missiles towards Ukrainian cities, with air defense systems intercepting around half of them.
There were recorded deaths and at least 36 injuries in just the capital, according to officials.
The explosion over the weekend that destroyed the very essential bridge that connects the annexated Crimean peninsula to the Russian mainland prompted Moscow to launch its missiles. Putin holds Kiev accountable for the attack on the supply route for Russian soldiers in Ukraine. Kiev has not admitted fault.
“In case of continuation of terrorist attack attempts on our territory, the Russian side will answer harshly — and in their scale, they will be commensurate with the level of threat to the Russian Federation,” said Putin.
Zelensky claimed that the Russian air, ground, and naval assaults—which Moscow’s Defense Ministry claimed were successful—were a “act of terror.”
After 5 hours and 37 minutes—the longest period of time since the conflict began on February 24—the air raid alert in Kiev was lifted in the early afternoon.
Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of the city, warned people to exercise caution.
Since the start of the conflict, Russian missiles have struck Kiev multiple times; nevertheless, the attack on Monday was the worst of its kind and the first on Kiev in months.
It comes after Ukraine launched a counteroffensive and reclaimed territory that had been lost earlier in the conflict. As complications arise with Moscow’s partial mobilization of fresh soldiers, Putin’s attempt to change the narrative also coincides with his Monday statement that mistakes must be corrected.
There have also been reports of Russian rocket assaults in other regions of Ukraine, from the disputed east to Lviv in the far west.
According to Mayor Ihor Terekhov on the messaging app Telegram, power outages occurred in several areas of the eastern city of Kharkiv as a result of three Russian airstrikes, one of which targeted energy facilities.
In Lviv, certain areas were also without electricity as a result of the infrastructure’s damage. To prevent overloading the electricity grid, Ukraine urged all inhabitants to turn off their electrical equipment in the evening.
Mayor Vadim Lyakh confirmed that four people died as a result of a missile strike in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region.
“Ukraine can’t be scared off. Instead, Zelensky stated in his evening video, “We unified even more.
Instead of his well-guarded presidential office as is typically the case, his address was recorded by a broken road junction close to a Kiev university.
Zelensky claimed that the alleged targets of Russia, which were military sites, were only civilian targets in and surrounding a park in front of the university.
Zelensky claimed that because the occupiers couldn’t fight us on the battlefield, they turned to terror.
Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities were denounced as having “no military purpose” by U.S. President Joe Biden.
According to Biden, “they once again show the absolute cruelty of Mr. Putin’s illegitimate war on the Ukrainian people.”
Following his conversation with Dmytro Kuleba, the foreign minister of Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg reaffirmed the alliance’s support for that country.
While UN Secretary General António Guterres was “extremely startled” and India expressed “deep concern,” Stoltenberg “condemned Russia’s terrible [and]indiscriminate assault on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.”
Charles Michel, president of the European Council, declared on Twitter that these indiscriminate assaults against people constitute war crimes.
Group of Seven (G7) leaders intend to speak with the president of Ukraine via video chat on Tuesday in response to the most recent escalation in the conflict.
Mayor Vadim Lyakh confirmed that four people died as a result of a missile strike in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region.
“Ukraine can’t be scared off. Zelensky’s evening speech, which was captured by a damaged road intersection close to a Kiev university rather from his well-secured presidential office as is typical, called for even greater unity.
Zelensky claimed that the alleged targets of Russia, which were military sites, were only civilian targets in and surrounding a park in front of the university.
Zelensky claimed that because the occupiers couldn’t fight us on the battlefield, they turned to terror.
Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities were denounced as having “no military purpose” by U.S. President Joe Biden.
According to Biden, “they once again show the absolute cruelty of Mr. Putin’s illegitimate war on the Ukrainian people.”
Following his conversation with Dmytro Kuleba, the foreign minister of Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg reaffirmed the alliance’s support for that country.
While UN Secretary General António Guterres was “extremely startled” and India expressed “deep concern,” Stoltenberg “condemned Russia’s terrible [and]indiscriminate assault on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.”
Charles Michel, president of the European Council, declared on Twitter that these indiscriminate assaults against people constitute war crimes.
Group of Seven (G7) leaders intend to speak with the president of Ukraine via video chat on Tuesday in response to the most recent escalation in the conflict.
Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres were among the figures with whom Zelensky held conversations in the meantime.
Putin said there had been three Ukrainian attacks on the Russian nuclear power station in Kursk to further support the justification for the barrage on Monday.
Additionally, he said that Ukraine had shelled the Russian-occupied nuclear power facility in the Moscow-annexed Zaporizhzhya area.
Yevgeny Popov, a member of the Russian parliament, told the BBC that despite his leader’s remarks, “We’re not going to assault people or civilians in Ukraine.”
The UN General Assembly is now debating recent Russian violations of international law by annexing portions of Ukraine.
