While the Russian army has been bombarding several Ukrainian cities for a week now and relentlessly, Volodymyr Zelensky made a promise to his people and to Vladimir Putin. “We are going to rebuild every building, every street, every city and we say to Russia: learn the word ‘reparations’,” the Ukrainian president said in a video address. “You are going to repay us fully for everything you have done against our state, against every Ukrainian,” he continued.
The bombings continue
Violent bombings took place in particular on Wednesday in Kherson, a metropolis of 290,000 inhabitants near the Crimean peninsula. This Thursday, the Russian army had finally succeeded in taking control of the city. In Mariupol, the mayor accused Russia of having “destroyed the bridges, destroyed the trains to prevent us from taking out our wives, children and old people”.
In the north, Kharkiv, the country’s second city near the Russian border, already hit by deadly bombardments on Tuesday and Wednesday, was shelled all night, according to regional authorities. In Kiev, finally, where strong explosions were heard in the night from Wednesday to Thursday, thousands of women and children have been sleeping for several nights in the metroconverted into an air-raid shelter.