The general secretary of the UN, Antonio Guterresreferred to Russia’s attacks on several Ukrainian cities on Monday as “another unacceptable escalation of the war” for which civilians “are paying the highest price.”
“The secretary-general is deeply shocked by today’s large-scale missile attacks by the armed forces of the Russian Federation,” his spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, said in a statement.
Today’s wave of attacks on Ukraine, claimed by Russia, has left scores of civilians killed & injured.
Key civilian infrastructure has been damaged across most regions, including Kyiv.
Humanitarian operations in the east have also been impacted.
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United Nations denounced that the bombings they caused significant damage to civilian areas and left dozens dead and wounded. According to the provisional balance of the Ukrainian authorities, the attacks left ten dead and sixty wounded.
In a first analysis, the UN humanitarian services noted that, in addition to numerous civilian casualties, key infrastructure was also damaged in several regions, including the Ukrainian capital.
As a result of the bombing, schools across the country were closed and hundreds of thousands of families were left without electricity, the United Nations said, noting that water and telecommunications services were also affected in some areas.
The organization pointed out that this wave of Russian attacks has also had an impact on the humanitarian operations it carries out, making it difficult to move aid to the east of the country, where there is a population in “desperate need of assistance.”
Russia presented today’s bombings against Ukrainian cities as a response to the attack perpetrated this weekend against the Crimean bridge, which connects this peninsula with its territory and for which the Kremlin blames the Ukrainian secret services.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to launch further such attacks if kyiv commits major “terrorist attacks” on Russia. According to a report from rtthe attacks were recorded in the capital of Ukraine and in the Vinnytsia, Lvov, Rovno, Ternopol, Dnepr, Khmelnitsky, Zhitomir, Poltava, Kharkov, Nikolayev, Cherkasy, Sumy, Ivano-Frankovsk and Odessa regions.
The UN points out in its report that “the new escalation of Russia’s war against Ukraine comes at a time when almost 18 million people across the country are already facing life-threatening humanitarian needs after almost eight months. of fierce fighting.
With information from Rt and Efe.
