UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is ” safe ” but ” shocked after the bombings that hit kyiv on Thursday, April 28, leaving at least 10 injured, while he was visiting the Ukrainian capital.
Russian missiles hit kyiv on Thursday evening, for the first time since mid-April and in the midst of a visit by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who for his part regretted that the United Nations Security Council had not succeeded in avoiding war in Ukraine.
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” In the evening, the enemy fired on kyiv. Two strikes on the Chevchenkovsky district », « on the lower floors of a residential building “, Three people were hospitalized, said the mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko.
” This says a lot about Russia’s true attitude towards international institutions, about Russian leaders’ efforts to humiliate the UN and everything the organization stands for. “Soon after, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky commented in a video.
Guterres” shocked “, but ” safe »
Antonio Guterres is “ shocked “, but ” safe “, for his part wanted to reassure a spokesperson for the United Nations, deploring that “ it happened close to where we were “, although it is a ” war zone “.
A few hours earlier, Joe Biden had reiterated his country’s support for Ukraine in the face of ” to atrocities and aggression and asked a $33 billion extension to Congress. United States ” do not attack “Russia but” help Ukraine defend itself “And have already delivered ten anti-tank weapons for each Russian tank, assured the American president.
(With AFP)