It was exposed Kyiv For one of the major Russian air attacks since the beginning WarAccording to Ukrainian officials, while Moscow said it had targeted Ukrainian military sites with high -precision weapons.
The Ukrainian authorities announced the killing of 3 people in the capital and Odisa in the south of the country as a result of the raids that took place on Monday night and dawn on Tuesday, and said that the bombing included a medical unit of childbirth in Odessa.
The Ukrainian president said Volodimir Zellinski “Today, one of the major attacks on Kyiv … the attacks with Russian missiles And running planes I’m witnessing “.
He called – in a post on Telegram – to “” an American move, because Washington is able to force Russia for peace, “and” a move from Europe that has no choice but to be strong. “
For his part, Ukrainian Minister of Culture, Mikola Tuchsky, announced that the Russian attack was damaged by the Cathedral of Saint Sofia, a site listed on the list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCOFor World Heritage, it is located in the historical center of Kiev.
Hundreds of misfortunes
As for the Russian Ministry of Defense, it announced that it launched a strike with missiles and aircraft driving on facilities for manufacturing aircraft, missiles, armored vehicles and ships in Ukraine, and described the weapons used in the attack as high -precision.
On the other hand, the Ukrainian Air Force said that Russia fired 315 passengers throughout the country and 7 missiles. She added that she was able to shoot down all missiles and 213 runways and disrupt 64 other runways by electronic means.
This came a day after another attack that was described as the largest since the beginning of the war, using a record number of misfortunes of 479, according to what was announced by the Ukrainian Air Force.
Stressive negotiations
The attacks are associated with the arrival of peace negotiations between the two sides to a dead end despite the efforts of the American President Donald Trump Who re -communicated with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
The only concrete result of the negotiations, Kiev and Moscow, yesterday, Monday, started a new operation to exchange prisoners of war in the coming days.
The two sides did not specify the number of soldiers covered by this exchange, which was decided during the second round of direct negotiations Istanbul On June 2.
The bodies of the soldiers
The Kremlin said today, Tuesday, that Russia has been ready for several days to hand over the bodies of the war dead, but Kiev is still looking for details.
In response to a question in this regard, a spokesman for the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov explained that Moscow is ready to exchange the bodies of the soldiers, but it is not yet known as the number of bodies that Ukraine may receive.
Official Russian media broadcast pictures of large cooling trucks with bodies inside white bags, which are parked near the border.
The Kremlin official said last Saturday that the Russian side reached the exchange point agreed with the shelves of 1212 Ukraine soldiers, but he did not find any from Ukraine to receive it.
The Ukrainian President has charged Moscow “of trying to practice a kind of political and media game” on the issue of exchange.