While Russia has launched a series of attacks on kyiv, which left at least three dead and ten wounded, Ukrainian and American delegations must meet this Sunday, March 23 in Saudi Arabia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Telegram said on Saturday evening.
Then, on Monday, concomitant discussions between Ukrainians and Americans on one side Monday, and Russian and American on the other. It will be for these actors to try to agree on a truce of the attacks aimed at the energy infrastructure of the two camps.
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⇒ Volodymyr Zelensky calls on her allies to “pressure” on Moscow to “end” in war
⇒ Ukrainian and American delegations must meet this Sunday in Saudi Arabia
⇒ At least three dead and 10 injured in Russian attacks on kyiv
Volodymyr Zelensky calls on his allies to “pressure” on Moscow to “end” war
The Ukrainian President called on his allies this Sunday to “pressure” on Moscow to “end” the war, a few hours after new Russian attacks which left at least three people dead and ten injured in kyiv, according to local authorities. “New decisions and new pressures on Moscow are necessary to end these strikes and this war,” said Volodymyr Zelensky on social networks, before talks planned from Monday in Saudi Arabia, sponsored by the United States.
At least three dead and 10 injured in Russian attacks on kyiv
At least three people were killed and ten others injured on the night of Saturday to Sunday during Russian drone attacks targeting kyiv, authorities of the Ukrainian capital announced. “According to information available, three people died, including a five -year -old child. Ten more people were injured,” kyiv military administration said in a statement published on Telegram. According to this source, among the three deceased “appear a father and his little daughter” of five years. And among the ten injured, “the youngest victim […] has only eleven months “. The administration of the region, for its part, denounced a” massive “Russian attack, reporting two injured at Boutcha, near the capital.
The Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andriï Sybiga, quickly deplored strikes “targeting residential areas and civilians sleeping at home”. “The systematic and deliberate terror of Russia against civilians contradicts its own declarations on peace and undergoes the peace efforts made by the United States and other partners,” he said. The head of the presidential office, Andriï Iermak, also was very critical. “Russia does not stop fire, (Vladimir) Putin wants to kill more civilians, you have to put an end to it,” he said on Telegram.
Vladimir Putin is not a “bad guy,” said the American emissary
“I do not consider Putin to be a bad guy. It is a complicated situation, this war, and all the ingredients that led there,” said US special envoy Steve Witkoff in the podcast of the conservative animator Tucker Carlson, who himself interviewed the Russian president last year. Vladimir Putin has been targeted since March 2023 by an arrest warrant for suspicions of illegal deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia.
The American emissary met Vladimir Putin ten days ago in Moscow. “I think he was frank with me,” said Steve Witkoff, telling how the Russian president had given him a “magnificent portrait” by President Trump. “And (he) told me a story […] on the fact that when the president [Trump] got shot, he went to his local church, met his priest and prayed for the president – not because he could become the president of the United States, but because he had a friendship with him and he prayed for his friend. “