Latest Russian attack is response to US peace proposals, Ukraine's foreign minister says
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has described the latest Russian attack on Ukrainian cities as the Kremlin's response to US peace initiatives. Source: Sybiha on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda Details: Sybiha noted that a number of Ukrainian cities had been attacked by Russian ballistic missiles, drones and aerial bombs on the night of 5-6 April.
Advertisement:"Russia's only response to US proposals for a full ceasefire so far has been to launch more missiles, drones and bombs against Ukraine and its people.
Time for more pressure on Moscow," he stressed.
Background:
- On Sunday morning, Russian forces launched a ballistic missile attack on Kyiv, causing fires and injuring three people.
- At 04:57, an air-raid warning was issued throughout most of Ukraine due to the activity of Russian strategic aircraft.
- On the evening of 4 April, Russian forces struck a residential area in the city of Kryvyi Rih with a ballistic missile, killing at least 18 people, including 9 children.
- At the time, Brink tweeted that she had been "horrified" by the attack on Kryvyi Rih but did not mention Russia in her post.
- For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was "unpleasantly" surprised by the US Embassy's reaction to the Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih.
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