The Russian forces sent by Vladimir Putin have attacked with force this Friday the capital of Ukraine, Kiev. On the second day of the first major war in Europe in decades, the Russian president charged into civilian infrastructure to force Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to negotiate and capitulate. The Ukrainian government reports dozens of deaths and injuries in attacks across the country. Russian special forces and airborne troops advance towards the capital. From the south and east, they are also trying to encircle the Ukrainian army in the Donbas region, where the Kiev secret services believe that Moscow may have also infiltrated paramilitary groups to attack from within and gain total control of the area. The plan could be repeated, they say, in other parts of the country, including in Kiev, where the objective of the head of the Kremlin could be to behead the top leadership of the government. Thousands of people have fled from the east, closer to the Russian border, and from the capital, to the west, to cities such as Lviv, near the border with Poland, where the warning sirens for attacks have also been heard this morning. . Tens of thousands of citizens try to leave the country for Poland and Hungary.
The shooting down of a Russian plane over Kiev, which has hit a residential building in the capital, has caused a large fire. It is a 10-storey building, about 10 kilometers from the center of the capital, reports Luis de Vega from Kyiv. There are at least five injured, one very serious. In a speech to the Ukrainian citizens, President Zelensky confirmed multiple Russian missile attacks in various parts of the country and assured that the military aggressions target civil and military infrastructure. “They are killing people and turning peaceful cities into military targets,” he said.
By Maria R. Sahuquillo
Photo: Hundreds of citizens take refuge in the Kiev metro stations this Thursday. (Emilio Morenatti/AP)
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