The anger and indignation grabbed the hometown or the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zenskyr on Monday, since it is funerals of heroes for some of the 20 people, including nine children, killed by a Russian missile that crossed apartment buildings and launched a recreation courtyard.
More than 70 were injured in the attack on Friday night in Kryvyi Rih. The children were playing on swings and in a sand box in a wooded park at that time. The bodies were scattered throughout the grass.
“We are not going through pity,” wrote Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the city administration, in Telegram as Kryvyi Rih cried. “We demand the outrage of the world.”
The UN Human Rights Office in Ukraine said it was the most verified deadly strike that damaged children from the beginning of Russia’s large -scale invasion in February 2022. It was also one of the most mortal attacks so far this year.
Ukraine has consented a high fire proposal for Washington. But Russia is still negotiating its terms with the United States to accept a truce in the war of more than three years.
President Donald Trump has expressed frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin about continuous struggle, and Ukrainian officials want Putin to stop. Trump promised his duration his electoral campaign last year to put a quick end to war.
“We are talking with Russia. We would like them to stop,” Trump told journalists on Sunday. “I don’t like bombing.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reaffirmed on Monday that Putin supports Trump’s fire, but wants the Russian conditions to be.
“President Putin in fact supports the idea of Alto El Fuego, but it is necessary to answer some questions first,” said Peskov.
‘Two desks are empty forever’
In Kryvyi Rih, the 59 -year -old teacher, Iryna Kholod, remembered Arina and Radyslav, both 7 years old and killed in Friday’s strike, as “as small soles in the classroom.”
Radyslav, he said, was proud to be part of a school campaign that collects pet food for street animals. “He is a hero the bag as it was treasure. He wanted to help,” he told The Associated Press.
After Friday night, “two desks in my class were empty forever,” Kholod said, added that he still has unopened birthday gifts for them.
“How do I tell parents to return their textbooks? How do I teach without them?” She asked.
Only patriot missiles can avoid such attacks
Russian missile and drones tactics continue to evolve, which makes it more difficult to tear them down, he said on national television.
Shahed drones designed by Russia in Iran have suffered significant improvements, while Moscow is also modernizing its ballistic missiles, he said.
Only the US patriot antimisile defense system can help prevent attacks such as Kryvyi Rih, Zensky said Sunday night.
He said he had ordered his ministers for defense and foreign affairs to “work bilaterally in air defense, as special with the United States, which has sufficient potential to help stop any terror.”
Ukraine will send a team to Washington this week to begin negotiations in a new draft of an agreement that would give the valuable mineral resources of Ukraine, he told The Associated Press, Minister of Economy, Yuliia Svyrydenko.
Not concluding a mineral agreement has hindered Ukrainian efforts to ensure promises or continue with us. Military support.
The Ministry of Defense of Great Britain and the Institute for the Study of the Washington War, a group of experts, say that the progress in the battlefield of Russia in the front line of approximately 620 miles has sincelie since then. But on Saturday night, Russia launched its largest air attack against Ukraine in almost a months.
It is believed that both parties are a military spring spring campaign before spring.
Air Raid interrupts a student’s monument
In Kryvyi Rih on Monday, Nataliia Slobodeniuk remembered her 15 -year -old Danylo Nikitskyi as “a spark” who energized the classroom and helped organize school trips and other occasions.
Danylo died with his girlfriend, Alina Kutsenko, also 15 years old. They were holding hands, “said Roman Nikitskyi, Danylo’s father.
“If Danylo was, half of the class used to be,” said the 55 -year -old teacher. “That’s how loved it was.”
He choked as he talked about his feeling of helplessness after the attack.
“You live his joy, his sadness,” he told the AP. “And now, this pain, destroys you. And you realize that there is nothing you can do. Nothing to fix it. You simply carry the pain forever.”
An Air Raid alert interrupted a planned commemorative ceremony in the city, a reminder of the continuous threat to civilians.
Frustration hit his home for Nataliia Freylikh, Herman Tripolets teacher, 9, who was also killed in last Friday’s attack. A minute of silence was a hero at children’s school, where teachers, classmates and families gathered. Almost one hundred people started together.
“Just crying it correctly is impossible,” Freylikh said.
From school, the mourners walked to the church for the funeral liturgy for Tripolets, and said final of the children who never came home.
