International – expected clarifications. After the bombing on the city center of Soumy, a city in the northeast of Ukraine, on Sunday of the branches, Russia brought first explanations on the reasons for these two strikes using ballistic missiles «Iskander» who left at least 34 dead.
This Monday, April 14, in the aftermath of a day in the sad human record when Ukraine celebrated an important date on the Christian calendar, Moscow explained this bombing on a high -concentration area by holding a “Command meeting” of a group of the Ukrainian army in Soumy.
Many deaths in Soumy in Ukraine after a Russian strike, for Zelensky “only bastards can do that”
The reasons for these deadly strikes were unveiled by the Russian Ministry of Defense. Moscow accuses kyiv ” to use the Ukrainian population as human shields, by placing military facilities or by organizing events in which soldiers participate in the center of a densely populated city. ”
“Military or quasi-military targets”
Except that there is a problem with this declaration. As AFP points out, this Russian narrative implies that Moscow recognizes that this bombardment has touched civilians, even if it is not clearly formulated. And this, while Russia has denied the start of the war to aim for civil infrastructure in Ukraine. Even if many Ukrainian cities have been destroyed and tens of thousands of civilians have been killed or injured since the start of the Russian offensive in February 2022.
Besides, the Kremlin had indicated earlier on Monday that the Russian army only attacked “Military or quasi-military targets” in Ukraine. These confused statements on the Russian method are likely not to arrange things, while this new magnitude attack against the country of Volodymyr Zelensky intervened two days after the visit of a senior American official in Russia to resume negotiations for a truce where they had stopped. Donald Trump’s emissary Steve Witkoff had met Vladimir Putin on Friday for the third time since February.
If no progress for a way to peace seems to have been concluded during this new exchange, the Russian spokesman Dmitri Peskov judged on Monday that such contacts are “Extremely useful and very effective”. He also praised a communication channel allowing Russian and American leaders to exchange directly on “Different elements of their positions on all kinds of questions”.
The invitation de zweensky to trump
In this context, the Ukrainian President appealed to Donald Trump so that the latter himself came to note ” What Putin did ” in Ukraine. Speaking indirectly to the American president, Volodymyr Zelensky Zelensky said: “We want you to come to see. You think you understand what’s going on here. Very well, we respect your decision ”.
“But please, before making any decision, before any form of negotiation, come and see people, civilians, combatants, hospitals, churches, children, destroyed or dead. Come, see and then advance with a plan to end war ”also launched the president of Ukraine to his American counterpart.
Despite a new meeting Friday with Vladimir Putin, the White House also condemned the strikes on Soumy, described as ” Rappel Brutal » of the imperative to negotiate to put an end to “This terrible war ». These strikes “Get the limits of decency”also commented on the American emissary for Ukraine Keith Kellogg. There was only Donald Trump to evoke a ” error On Sunday, without ever specifying exactly to whom he was referring.
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