The mayor of Kiev, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko, announced a curfew in the city from 8 pm on Tuesday (15) – 3 pm in Brasília time – until 7 am on Thursday (17) – 12 pm in Brazil, after that several apartment blocks were hit by Russian forces based outside the city, according to the official. Four people were killed in the offensive.
“It is forbidden to move around the city without special permission, except to go to bomb shelters,” Klitschko said. “The capital is the heart of Ukraine and will be defended. Kiev, which is currently the symbol and forward operational base of Europe’s freedom and security, will not be abandoned by us.”
The buildings were hit the day the The European Union formally approved a round of sanctions on Russia in the energy, steel and defense sectors. A 16-story apartment building in the Sviatoshynskyi district was significantly damaged.
In Tuesday’s attacks, at least three more residential buildings were damaged in Kiev. Residential areas to the east, north and west of the city center were hit by shelling an hour apart.
The Russians want Ukraine to change its constitution to safeguard neutrality (outside NATO), in addition to considering Crimea as Russian territory and recognizing the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Lugansk as independent territories.
Source: CNN Brasil
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