UPDATE: Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko announced that a number of troops from the country’s army will deploy alongside Russian troops, claiming that Ukraine had been secretly planning to attack Belarus.
It was rush hour on a Monday morning, the kids just heading off to school, when the bombs started to fall on Kyiv and war finally returned to the Ukrainian capital.
The strikes came hours before one of Putin’s closest allies, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko,that a number of troops from the country’s 60,000-strong army will deploy alongside Russian troops, claiming that Ukraine had been secretly planning to attack Belarus. “I have already said that Ukraine today it is not just discussing but planning strikes on Belarusian territory,” he said.. They [Ukraine] are being pushed by their patrons to unleash a war against Belarus in order to draw us in it and deal with Russia and Belarus at a time.”
At least 14 regions in total were struck on Monday, with widespread blackouts and other utility issues reported in the aftermath of the Russian attacks. Missile strikes were reported in Lviv, Ternopil, and Zhytomyr in western Ukraine, as well as in Dnipro in central Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said energy infrastructure had been targeted across the country.
“Cowards fighting playgrounds, children and people,” Andriy Yermak, the head of the president’s office, wrote on Telegram. “This is another signal to the civilized world that the Russian question must be solved by force.” Art curator Natalia Zabolotna was on the 16th floor of her apartment building when she heard the first explosion in the city center. “This is worse than on February 24th,” she told The Daily Beast, referring to the day when the invasion began. “They fire every 15 minutes at the center of Kyiv and I heard sounds of an airplane engine.”
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