HERE IS FÉLIX SÉGUIN’S INFORMATION ON THE PITCH
14h35 | The sirens giving warning of an attack would not have been triggered; it might be hypersonic missiles according to a specialist on our airwaves.
14h26 | No one was killed in the missile attack, confirms the Ukrainian army to TVA Nouvelles and other local media.
14h07 | Ukrainian sappers are deployed to intervene on buildings hit by two surface-to-air missiles in Kyiv, reports Félix Séguin. We hear panicked voices on the radios.
14h | “The capital is struck in the heart,” reports Félix Séguin live, a few minutes following the bombings in Kyiv.
The AFP report
The Ukrainian capital, kyiv, was the target of strikes on Thursday evening, in the middle of a visit by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and for the first time since mid-April, AFP journalists noted.
AFP correspondents saw a floor of a building on fire with black smoke billowing from shattered windows, while many police and rescue workers were present at the scene.
“In the evening the enemy fired on kyiv. Two strikes on the Chevchenkovsky district”, confirmed the mayor of kyiv, Vitali Klitschko.
“No one was killed in the missile attack,” confirms the Ukrainian army to TVA Nouvelles and other local media. According to our information, the sirens to warn of an attack have not been triggered.
“Missile strikes in the center of kyiv during the official visit of Antonio Guterres”, lambasted on Twitter Mikhaïlo Podoliak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“Yesterday he was sitting at a long table in the Kremlin and today there are explosions above his head,” Mr. Podoliak quipped.
“This is proof that we need a quick victory over Russia and that all civilized people must unite around Ukraine. We must act quickly. More weapons, more humanitarian efforts, more aid”, added the head of the presidential administration, Andriï Iermak.
He called for stripping Russia of its right of veto in the UN Security Council.
Guterres spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday. Thursday, he arrived in Ukraine to go in particular to Boutcha and Irpin, in the suburbs of the capital, theaters of atrocities attributed to the Russian army by the Ukrainians.
He also spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, regretting that the UN Security Council had failed to prevent and stop the war started on February 24 by Moscow.
“The invasion of Ukraine by Russia is a violation of its territorial integrity and of the Charter of the United Nations”, he denounced once once more.