Attacks against railway facilities in Kyiv: there are at least 11 dead
Six of the fatalities are workers from the Ukrainian state-owned railway company
BarcelonaAt least eight people have died early this morning in Kyiv and three more have lost their lives in its surroundings in a new massive Russian attack with ballistic missiles and drones against the capital region, according to the victim toll offered by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.
Six of the fatal victims known so far are workers of the Ukrainian state railway company, Ukrzaliznytsia, as announced by the company itself. Yesterday night's Russian attack had the company's infrastructure among its main targets.
Three more people have died in attacks on an industrial infrastructure and a gas station in the town of Boryspil, near Kyiv.
Numerous residential buildings have suffered damage from the fall of Russian drones or missiles in the region.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Andriy Sybiga, has written on X that this new attack on Kyiv shows that, unlike Volodymyr Zelensky, who offers a ceasefire and calls for a meeting of presidents to discuss the end of the war, the Kremlin leader, Vladimir Putin, is not interested in peace.
Sybiga has called for increased pressure on Russia with the approval, by the United States Congress, of a law promoted, among others, by the late Republican senator close to Trump, Lindsey Graham, which would grant additional powers to the president to impose secondary sanctions in the form of tariffs on those who continue to finance the Russian war effort through oil purchases.
The head of Ukrainian diplomacy has also called for new international sanctions that affect Russia's ability to continue producing ballistic missiles and has urged its partners to allocate frozen Russian assets, especially in the European Union, to help Ukraine.
Russia has attacked Kyiv almost non-stop since Thursday, mainly with drones, in a bombing campaign primarily targeting supermarket warehouses and other retail companies.
Zelensky receives American envoys
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on Monday that he had a "detailed and constructive" conversation with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, envoys of U.S. President Donald Trump, and that the parties were working to finalize the dates of his visit to Ukraine with the aim of boosting peace efforts.
On the same day, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the war had to end "for the sake of humanity." The Kremlin leader stated that Moscow "is moving along this path."
The conflict has led some NATO members, especially those bordering Russia, to strengthen their military capabilities, also as a result of the intensification of drone incidents in border areas.
NATO's Baltic air policing mission briefly scrambled fighter jets in Latvia, and Finland has restricted air and maritime traffic near Russia, as the armed forces of both countries separately reported on X, while drones flew over the Russian region of Leningrad, where Ust-Luga is located.
Estonia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Margus Tsahkna, whose country also briefly issued an air threat alert this Tuesday, thanked NATO's "swift and exactly as expected" reaction in deploying fighter jets in a post on X.
