2023-05-30 03:30:27
In the Ukrainian capital Kiev as well as in central and northern Ukraine there was another air alert on Tuesday night. The mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, spoke of a “massive attack”. At least one person died in a high-rise fire in Kiev caused by falling debris from a destroyed Russian missile. Another person is in the hospital and two others are injured, Klitschko said on Telegram.
The Kiev military administration stated that the two upper floors of the apartment building were destroyed and that people could still be buried under the rubble. Falling debris from missiles hit several parts of the capital, including the historic districts of Podil and Pecherskyi.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said Russia’s defeat was the most important goal of his country’s forthcoming counteroffensive. “We must shake the Russians’ certainty that they can win this war. Russia must and will lose this war,” Reznikov told the newspapers of Germany’s Funke media group and the French newspaper Quest-France (Tuesday editions). “We will liberate all temporarily occupied areas of Ukraine until we restore the internationally recognized borders of 1991.” That includes the Crimean peninsula as well as the Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Resnikov sees real military progress for Ukraine in the summer. “In two or three places on the battlefield, in the south as well as in the east. There will be new waves of Russian soldiers fleeing on our territory,” he told the newspapers.
Against this background, Ukraine continues to push for the delivery of fighter jets for air defense. “If Great Britain and Germany were to combine their capacities for the Eurofighter, that would be an important step,” Resnikov said. “There is already an international coalition of main battle tanks with the core model of the German Leopard 2 and American Abrams and British Challengers. We could also form a fighter jet coalition with the core model F-16 and Eurofighters and Gripen.” Gripen jets are produced by the Swedish company Saab. “First of all, we would appreciate it if Germany would take part in training our pilots on Eurofighters.” Britain, which has offered training, like Germany, does not have the F-16 fighter jets that Ukraine wants at all.
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