Kyiv, Ukraine – The capital of Ukraine was under an attack of Russian unmanned aircraft and early missile missiles with explosions and machine guns throughout the city, which forced many kyiv residents to take refuge in underground subway stations.
The Russian night attack occurred hours after Russia and Ukraine began an important exchange of prisoners, exchanging hundreds of soldiers and civilians in the first phase of an exchange agreed by the two parties at a meeting in Istanbul last week. The agreement It was a moment of cooperation in failed efforts in another way to reach a high fire in the 3 -year war.
The debris of intercepted missiles and drones fell into at least four districts in the city of the Ukrainian capital on the early Saturday, he wrote in the head of the Military Administration of kyiv, Tymur Tkachenko, in Telegram. According to Tkachenko, six people required medical attention after the attack and two fires were caused in the kyiv district of Solomianskyi.
Before the attack, the mayor of the city, vitalii Klitschko, warned kyiv residents of more than 20 Russian attack drones that are heading towards kyiv. As the attack continued, he said that drone debris fell into a mall and a residential building in the kyiv Obolon district. The emergency services went to the site, said Klitschko.
The exchange of prisoners on Friday was the first phase of a complicated agreement that involved the exchange of 1,000 prisoners on each side.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the first phase brought 390 Ukrainians home, and more releases are expected during the weekend that will make him the greatest exchange of war. The Russian Ministry of Defense said it received the same number of Ukraine.
The exchange took place at the border with Belarus in northern Ukraine, according to a Ukrainian official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.
The released Russians were taken to Belarus to receive medical treatment, said Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
When the liberated men entered the medical installation on Friday, people who have signals and photos of their relatives shouted names or brigade numbers, looking for news from a loved one. The men who returned inspected the photos, and a military said he shared a cell with one of those in the sea of portraits held towards him.
“Vanya!” Nataliia Mosych shouted, among the relatives gathered, “My husband!”
The exchange, the last of dozens of exchanges since the war began and the greatest that involve Ukrainian civilians at the same time, did not announce any arrest in the fight.
The battles continued along the front line of approximately 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), where tens of thousands of soldiers have been killed, and none of the countries has yielded in their deep blows.
After the Istanbul meeting of May 16, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan described the prisoner, changed a “confidence construction measure” and said the parties had agreed in principle to meet again.
But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday that there has not yet an agreement in the place for the next round of conversations to end the fight as the diplomatic maneuver continued.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday night Moscow would give Ukraine a document draft that describes its conditions for a “sustainable, long -term and integral peace agreement” once the exchange of ongoing prisoners has ended.
European leaders have accused Russian President Vladimir Putin to drag their feet in peace efforts while trying to press the battlefield initiative of their largest army and capture more Ukrainian lands.
Istanbul’s meeting revealed that both parties remained very separate in key conditions to end the fighting. One of those conditions for Ukraine, backed by its western allies, is a high temporary fire as the first step towards a peaceful settlement.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said it had demolished 788 Ukrainian drones of the battlefield between May 20 and 23.
The Ukraine Air Force said that Russia dismissed 175 Shahed and lures drones, as well as a ballistic missile since Thursday night.
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