by Admin
Oct 27, 2024
Seven people have been killed by Russian missiles in the Dnipro side of Ukraine and in different parts of Kyiv, the country’s capital.
The overnight attack killed a total of five people in Dnipro while two reported numbers of casualties were also killed in the Ukrainian capital.
The airstrike attack came barely 48 hours after the BRICS bloc 2024 summit which was held in Kazan, Russia, where the United Nations general secretary, Antonio Guterres attended and called for worldwide peace.
Voldodymr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president was devastated by the attack accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of ignoring his counterparts at the BRICS summit call for the end of the war.
Zelensky said “After everything that was said in Kazan, Russian murderers returned to their usual business,”
The Ukrainian president further said, “This proves once again that aggression cannot be stopped by talking, but only by decisive actions in defense of the state”.
The Russian missiles hit several buildings in Dnipro killing five people and injuring several others while two others were killed in Kyiv and ten people injured including women and children.
A teenager was among the casualties in Kyiv and while two women were part of the casualties in the Dnipro area of Ukraine.
Prodesq war analyst, Temitope Oladeji delved into why Russian President Vladimir Putin ignored the BRICS leader’s calls for the end of the war in Ukraine and struck less than 48 hours after the summit which he hosted in his own country.
Temitope said the strike was a response to the Western leadership’s decision to hand over $50 million dollars of Russia’s overseas assets to Ukraine as a relief fund.
Selling the Russian overseas assets and giving $50 million worth of it to Ukraine did not definitely go well with Putin, the strike came a few hours after the G7 leaders announced the decision to sell Russia’s overseas assets and hand it to Ukraine.
However, Kyiv has been calling for more air defense systems after the capital has continuously experienced deadly drone and missile attacks from Russia.
The Ukrainian forces are still yet to pull out of the Russian territory of the Kursk region since the Ukrainians made a surprise invasion of the region a month ago.