Friday’s massive Russian strikes on Ukraine, which killed at least 30 people and wounded over 160 others, are „appalling assaults” the UN deputy secretary general Mohamed Khiari said in a Security Council meeting in New York. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the situation as the largest Russian air attack since the start of the war, with close to 160 missiles and drones hitting a maternity ward, educational facilities, and other industrial, military and civilian targets. NATO member Poland also reported the violation of the Polish airspace by a Russian missile. The strikes triggered large-scale international condemnation, with the US president Joe Biden calling on Congress to take immediate steps to send fresh aid to Kyiv. Meanwhile, Russia’s ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzya blamed the toll on the misuse of Ukraine’s air defence systems, „the use of which has led to the deaths of civilians.”
