LIVE – War in Ukraine: Moscow confirms having targeted kyiv with its Orechnik nuclear-capable missile

The Ukrainian office of the World Health Organization (WHO) in kyiv was damaged by debris from strikes that occurred overnight, its director general announced on Sunday, calling for an end to attacks against civilians.

During the night, the WHO office “was hit by the debris of one of the numerous strikes on the city, which damaged windows on the second floor”, indicated its director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on X, photos at support.

“This building houses many UN agencies, in addition to the WHO. No one was injured,” he said.

According to Russian journalist Sergei Buntman, interviewed on LCI, the use of an Orechnik missile allows Vladimir Putin to “intimidate the Ukrainians and above all to find a response to those who criticize him”. Find his analysis in the article below.Â

Ukrainian player Marta Kostyuk won against Spaniard of Russian origin Oksana Selekhmeteva in the first round of Roland-Garros this Sunday.

A victory sealed a few hours after the fall of a missile near his parents’ home, in Ukraine. “I spent most of the morning feeling nauseous thinking that if (the missile) had fallen 100 meters further, I would no longer have a mother or a sister,” she declared, moved, after the meeting.

All districts of the Ukrainian capital suffered damage after Russian bombing overnight. The strikes caused fires at schools and sowed chaos in busy markets, shopping centers and museums, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

The National Art Museum, the Opera, the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and that of the studio of the German channel ARD and the media DW also suffered damage, according to these institutions. In addition, the Chernobyl museum was “destroyed”, according to Mr. Zelensky.

Russian bombings “partially destroyed” the studio of German public television channel ARD and damaged the office of German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) located in kyiv, the two media announced on Sunday. No injuries were reported.

“Despite the extent of the damage, live coverage from Ukraine continues: production and live broadcast will be ensured using mobile technical solutions and fallback solutions,” ARD reported.

“Russian airstrikes have been massive and merciless for years and are part of the harsh reality of life in Ukraine,” said Vasily Golod, head of the ARD studio in kyiv.

Emmanuel Macron spoke well with the president of Belarus, the president’s entourage confirmed to TF1/LCI.

During this exchange, Emmanuel Macron notably “underlined the risks there were for Belarus in allowing itself to be drawn into Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine”.

“He also urged Alexander Lukashenko to take the necessary steps to improve relations between Belarus and Europe,” said this source.

The Russian army used an Oreshnik missile against Ukraine. This is the third time since the start of the conflict in 2022 that this long-range destructive weapon has been used.

Here’s what you need to know about this missile that Vladimir Putin has already compared to “a meteorite”.

Emmanuel Macron and the President of Belarus, Alexandre Lukashenko, spoke by telephone on Sunday at the initiative of Paris, according to a press release from the Belarusian presidency.

“The two heads of state discussed regional issues as well as Belarus’s relations with the EU and with France in particular,” said this press release, without giving further details.

The head of the Italian government Giorgia Meloni strongly condemned on Sunday the Russian night attack against Ukrainian targets with the use of the Orechnik ballistic missile.

“I strongly condemn the violent Russian attack which once again hit civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, with a gradual escalation in the importance of the weapons used,” she declared, according to an official statement.

The use of the Orechnik ballistic missile, during Russian strikes against Ukraine during the night from Saturday to Sunday, signals “a form of headlong flight” from Moscow and “the impasse of its war of aggression”, reacted Emmanuel Macron on X.

This intermediate-range missile, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, was fired in a new round of strikes “against civilian objectives in Ukraine”, accused the French president, while the Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have only targeted targets. military targets.

The strikes shook buildings in the Ukrainian capital. Our correspondent on site, Guillaume Ptak, summarizes the situation on LCI.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that it had used intermediate-range and nuclear-capable Orechnik missiles to target Ukraine in nighttime bombings, claiming to have only targeted military targets.

“In response to the terrorist attacks by Ukraine against civilian infrastructure on the territory of Russia, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a massive strike using ‘Orechnik’ ballistic missiles, ‘Iskander’ aeroballistic missiles, ‘Kinjal’ hypersonic aeroballistic missiles and ‘Kinjal’ hypersonic aeroballistic missiles. cruise ‘Tsirkon’, as well as cruise missiles” and drones, the ministry declared in a press release. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced earlier in the day an Orechnik missile strike in Bila Tserkva in the kyiv region.

Russia used a nuclear-capable Orechnik intermediate-range missile against Ukraine during massive and deadly nighttime bombings, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday.

“Three Russian missiles hit a water supply infrastructure, a market burned, dozens of residential buildings damaged, several ordinary schools, and he (Russian President Vladimir Putin, editor’s note) launched his ‘Orechnik’ against Bila Tserkva. They are really crazy,” declared Mr. Zelensky.

Russia targeted Ukraine, and in particular the capital kyiv, with 600 drones and 90 missiles during the night from Saturday to Sunday, the Ukrainian air forces said. In total, the Ukrainian Air Force detected “690 air attack aircraft – 90 missiles and 600 drones of various types”, she said on Telegram on Sunday, including “an intermediate-range ballistic missile”, specifying that 55 missiles and 549 drones were detected. been intercepted.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriï Sybiga on Sunday accused Moscow of having carried out “one of the biggest terrorist attacks on kyiv”.

The intense Russian bombings which hit kyiv and its region during the night from Saturday to Sunday left four dead and more than 60 injured, according to local authorities. The death toll from nighttime bombings rose to two dead and 56 injured in the hard-hit capital, kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.

Two people were also killed in the capital region and nine were injured, including a child “who is not even a year old”, said the head of the regional administration Mykola Kalashnyk.

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