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The Guardian
08-04-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy speaks of military presence in Russia's Belgorod region for first time
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said for the first time Monday that Ukrainian forces were operating in Russia's Belgorod region, where Moscow reported attacks in March. Belgorod is regularly the target of Ukrainian air attacks and is close to Russia's Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces have been desperately trying to hang on to territory since launching a surprise incursion last year. Zelenskyy said in his daily address that General Oleksandr Syrsky had reported on 'our presence in Kursk region and our presence in Belgorod region'. He added: 'We continue to conduct active operations in the border areas on the enemy's territory, and this is absolutely right – the war must return to where it came from.' It is the first time since the full-scale invasion began that Zelenskyy has explicitly mentioned a Ukrainian presence in Belgorod, a border region with a population of about 1.5 million people. The Russian military acknowledged facing Ukrainian land attacks in the region in March. According to the DeepState military blog, which is considered close to Ukraine's army, Ukrainian troops have occupied a 13 sq km (five square mile) area in the Russian region, near the border village of Demidovka. Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian officials have said the incursion into Kursk and other Russian territory is to divert Russian forces attacking the Ukrainian regions of Sumy and Kharkiv. Anger and outrage gripped Zelenskyy's home town on Monday as it held funerals for some of the 20 people, including nine children, killed by a Russian missile that struck apartment buildings and a playground. More than 70 were wounded in the attack on Kryvyi Rih last Friday evening. The children were playing on swings and in a sandbox in a tree-lined park at the time. Bodies were strewn across the grass. 'We are not asking for pity,' Oleksandr Vilkul, the head of the city administration, wrote on Telegram as Kryvyi Rih mourned. 'We demand the world's outrage.' The UN Human Rights Office in Ukraine said it was the deadliest single verified strike harming children since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. It was also one of the deadliest attacks so far this year. Teacher Iryna Kholod remembered Arina and Radyslav, both 7 years old and killed in Friday's strike, as being 'like little suns in the classroom'. Radyslav, she said, was proud to be part of a school campaign collecting pet food for stray animals. 'He held the bag like it was treasure. He wanted to help,' she told the Associated Press. After Friday evening, 'two desks in my classroom were empty forever,' Kholod said, adding that she still has unopened birthday gifts for them. 'How do I tell parents to return their textbooks? How do I teach without them?' she asked. Donald Trump has accused Russia of 'bombing like crazy right now' even as the US president claimed the parties were 'sort of close' on a deal. On Monday he reiterated his opposition to Russia's bombing of Ukraine as his administration participates in talks seeking an end to the fighting. 'I'm not happy about what's going on', he told reporters in the White House. 'So we're meeting with Russia, we're meeting with Ukraine, and we're getting sort of close, but I'm not happy with all the bombing that's going in the last week or so,' he said. 'It's a horrible thing.' Trump's Monday remarks came hours after the Kremlin said it supported the idea of a truce in Ukraine but had many 'questions' about how such a deal would work, pushing back at US and European suggestions that it was playing for time. Russia has kept up its strikes on Ukraine unabated despite the US president's promise to bring peace within '24 hours' of returning to the White House in January.
Yahoo
05-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Russian attack on Kryvyi Rih: details about people injured and killed by strike
Russian forces launched a ballistic missile on the city of Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the evening of 4 April, killing 18 people, including nine children. A total of 61 people were injured in the strike, among them 12 children. Serhii Lysak, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, has reported that the youngest wounded child is just three months old. Source: Ukrainska (Life) Details: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has noted that nine children had been killed in the missile attack. Among the children killed was three-year-old Tymofii. Efforts were made to save him, but he died in hospital on 5 April. At the time of the explosion, he had been walking home from the playground with his grandmother. His mother, Valeriia, described him as full of energy and fascinated by space. Three-year-old Tymofii. Photo: Svoi. Kryvyi Rih, a local Telegram channel Seven-year-old Radyslav was also killed in the Russian attack. According to Svoi. Kryvyi Rih, a local Telegram channel, the boy and his family were in a car on their way home when the missile struck. Radyslav had been sitting behind his father, Rodion, and the entire force of the blast hit the child. The boy died. Radyslav's father is currently in hospital with a concussion, multiple injuries and eye damage. His mother, Anna, and his eight-month-old sister, Adelina, were also wounded. The baby was cut by debris. Both will receive treatment at home. Their grandmother, who was also in the car, was taken to hospital. Seven-year-old Radyslav Photo: NA ChASI: Kryvyi Rih, a local Telegram channel The Russian attack also took the lives of several other children: Seven-year-old second-grader Arina was outside with her grandfather when the missile struck. He was also killed; Nine-year-old Herman; Fifteen-year-old Danylo, a ninth-grade student; Fifteen-year-old Mykyta; Fifteen-year-old Alina, also in the ninth grade; Sixteen-year-old Kostiantyn; Seventeen-year-old Nikita. Alina Kutsenko Photo: NA ChASI: Kryvyi Rih Arina Samodina Photo: NA ChASI: Kryvyi Rih Danylo Nikitskyi Photo: NA ChASI: Kryvyi Rih "These children were killed by a Russian ballistic missile strike on Kryvyi Rih. It was only a few minutes after the launch from the Taganrog area in enemy territory. Sadly, nine adults were also killed. My condolences to all the families and friends," Zelenskyy wrote on Instagram. Daria Onina was also killed in the attack. The young lady would have turned 23 years old in three weeks. Daria Onina Photo: NA ChASI: Kryvyi Rih The Russian missile also took the life of 50-year-old Vita Holovko. Her 8-year-old son Matvii is currently in intensive care. Doctors assess his condition as serious but stable. The boy has a sister, Anastasiia. Vita Holovko was killed in the attack, her son is in hospital Photo: Svoi. Kryvyi Rih A four-year-old boy is also in hospital with injuries to all his abdominal organs. Doctors are preparing to operate and his condition remains critical. Shortly after the first attack, Russian forces launched another onslaught on the city. A Shahed loitering munition struck a house where an elderly woman lived. According to Svoi. Kryvyi Rih, she had taken shelter in the basement, but her chances of survival were slim as a massive fire engulfed the building. "Updated information suggests that one of the deceased woman's sons is a soldier, currently studying abroad. Windows and glass panes were blown out of nearby houses and walls were partially destroyed," Svoi. Kryvyi Rih said. Kryvyi Rih will observe days of mourning for the people killed in the Russian attack from Monday to Wednesday, 7 to 9 April. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
