- Russian strikes on Vinnytsia, a city in central Ukraine, left at least 23 dead on Thursday (July 14th). Images released by Ukraine’s State Emergency Service showed dozens of charred carcasses and a 10-story building ravaged by the explosion and subsequent fire in the 370-meter city. 000 inhabitants, located well west of the capital kyiv, far from the front lines. The attack injured nearly a hundred.
- “This day demonstrates once again that Russia must be officially recognized as a terrorist state. (…) No other country in the world allows itself to destroy peaceful cities and ordinary human lives every day with cruise missiles and artillery”said Thursday evening the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, pointing out that a medical center had been destroyed. He said three children under the age of 10 were among the 23 dead, “and unfortunately this is not the final number” because “dozens of people are missing” and there are “very seriously injured”.
- In a press release published Thursday evening, the High Representative of theEuropean Union for foreign affairs and security policy, Joseph Borrelland the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarcicdeclare that “The European Union condemns in the strongest terms the continued indiscriminate attacks on civilian buildings, including hospitals, schools and shelters” in Vinnytsia.
- Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, is “landed” by the number of civilian casualties in Vinnytsia. He “condemns any attack against civilians or civilian infrastructure and reiterates its call to hold accountable those responsible for these violations” international law, his spokesman said.
- According to the Russian state news agency TASS, citing Vitali Kiselevan official of the “Luhansk People’s Republic”, Russian and separatist forces entered Siversk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. According to him, the city could fall in a few days, without it being possible to verify, for the time being, these assertions.
- The Governor of Donetsk Oblast, Pavlo Kyrylenko, reported this Thursday morning, “one dead and five injured” in Bakhmoutafter, according to him, a Russian bombardment on this area of eastern Ukraine.
- The death toll from Sunday’s Russian bombardment of an apartment building in Chassiv Yar, eastern Ukraine, has been reassessed at at least forty-eight dead, including a childUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Wednesday night, calling the attack one of the most “brutals of the whole war”.
- North Korea has officially recognized the two pro-Russian breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk, as independent countries, North Korean state media reported Thursday morning. kyiv has announced that it is severing diplomatic relations with Pyongyang.
- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Wednesday ruled out ceding territories to Russiaas part of a possible peace agreement, while specifying that no peace negotiations were underway between Moscow and kyiv.
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