The essential :
- “Many towns” in Ukraine were bombed on Monday morning, October 10, according to the presidency. The capital kyiv had been targeted by the first strikes for more than three months. The cities of Lviv (West), Dnipro (Center) and Zaporizhia (South) were also affected. A first assessment was communicated by the Ukrainian police which reports at least 10 people killed and 60 injured.
- The Ukrainian army claimed that Russia fired 83 missiles this morning. For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Moscow was bombing Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and also using Iranian combat drones.
- Two days after the explosion of the Crimean bridge – Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in March 2014 – Vladimir Putin is meeting his security council on Monday, after accusing kyiv of having committed a “terrorist act”. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev assured that the massive strikes against Ukraine were only a “first episode”, calling for the “total dismantling” of Ukrainian political power.
11:23 p.m. – The train runs again, despite the missiles, between Izium and Kharkiv
While a rain of Russian missiles fell on many cities in Ukraine on Monday, railway workers managed the feat of restoring in its eastern part a rail link cut off because of the fighting. Following the truck bomb attack that damaged a bridge through which pass the main road and railway linking Russia to the Ukrainian peninsula occupied Crimea, the Russian army has indeed intensified its strikes on civilian targets. But despite the shelling, passenger rail transport has resumed between Izium, a city in the east recently recaptured by Ukrainian forces, and Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, in the northeast, after an interruption in seven months imposed by the Russian offensive launched on February 24. “The trains will run twice a day, every day,” assured Andrei Gadiatsky, the director of the Izium railways, standing in the rain in front of the barricaded windows of the partially burned station. For some inhabitants of this region at the heart of the fighting on the eastern front, it is the way to finally be able to access basic necessities.
10:18 p.m. – Washington promises anti-aircraft defenses to kyiv
Joe Biden promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday “to continue to provide Ukraine with what it needs to defend itself, including advanced air defense systems,” according to a White House statement. During a telephone interview, the American president also expressed to his counterpart his “condolences” after massive Russian strikes on kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.
9:59 p.m. – Russia, a “terrorist state” according to Ukraine
“Russia has once again proven that it is a terrorist state that must be deterred in the strongest possible way”, hammered, before the General Assembly of the United Nations, the ambassador of Ukraine to the United Nations. ‘UN Sergiy Kyslytsya.
8:57 p.m. – Ukraine not “intimidated” by massive Russian strikes
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky assured Monday that his country will not be “intimidated” by the massive bombardments carried out by Russia, which hit important energy infrastructures and left at least eleven dead. “Ukraine cannot be intimidated. It can only be that much more united. Ukraine cannot be stopped,” the Ukrainian president said in a video posted on social media, promising to fight “more more painful” for the Russian troops on the front.
6:39 p.m. – Joe Biden wants to continue to make Russia pay “a heavy cost for its aggression”
US President Joe Biden on Monday “strongly condemned” the rain of Russian bombardments in Ukraine, proof of the “absolute brutality” of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, which left at least 11 dead and 89 injured across the country. “These attacks have killed and injured civilians and destroyed non-military targets,” the Democratic leader castigated, assuring that they would only strengthen American support for Ukraine and that the United States would continue “to impose a heavy cost to Russia for its aggression”.
5:37 p.m. – A meeting at the UN to discuss the annexation of Ukrainian regions by Moscow
All the countries of the United Nations meet Monday afternoon in New York in general assembly to debate a condemnation of the annexation of Ukrainian regions by Moscow, just after massive Russian strikes denounced by the UN and the West. With this resolution, which should be voted on this week, Westerners hope to show that President Vladimir Putin’s Russia is isolated on the international scene.
5:14 p.m. – The United States supports Ukraine
US Foreign Minister Antony Blinken said on Monday he spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kouleba to assure him of “US support for Ukraine after the horrific Kremlin strikes this morning”. “We will continue to provide economic, humanitarian and military assistance so that Ukraine can defend itself,” he wrote on Twitter.
4:17 p.m. – Antonio Guterres said he was “deeply shocked” by the Russian bombings
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday denounced, according to his spokesman, “an unacceptable escalation of the war” in Ukraine after deadly Russian bombardments on a scale not seen in months that hit kyiv and other cities. Antonio Guterres “is deeply shocked” by these attacks, his spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, said in a statement, who considered that they constituted “a new unacceptable escalation of the war”, for which civilians “pay the highest price. raised”.
3:25 p.m. – About 10,000 Ukrainian refugees have returned home from France
The State estimates that around 10,000 the number of displaced Ukrainians who have returned to their country after being welcomed in France, announced Monday to Agence France-Presse the head of the French Office for Immigration and Immigration. integration (Ofii) Didier Leschi. “It is believed that around 10,000 (Ukrainian displaced persons) left at the end of September, according to the deactivated asylum seeker allowance cards”, explains the director general of Ofii, who delivers the first estimate of this departure movement, almost eight months after the start of the war in Ukraine.
3:07 p.m. – Emmanuel Macron will “take stock” of the situation in Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday lamented a “profound change in the nature” of the war in Ukraine after a series of Russian strikes across Ukraine. These “deliberate strikes by Russia on the whole of Ukrainian territory and against civilians is a profound change in the nature of this war”, he said during a trip to Château-Gontier (Mayenne ), adding that he would bring together his diplomatic and military advisers concerned as soon as he returned to Paris to “take stock” of the situation.
2:57 p.m. – Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine are preparing terrorist acts, according to Lukashenko
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Monday accused Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine of preparing “terrorist” attacks and a “military uprising” in Belarus, after announcing the deployment of a “regional” military grouping with Moscow. “The training in Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine of fighters including Belarusian radicals, to carry out sabotage, terrorist acts and a military uprising in the country, becomes a direct threat,” he said during a a meeting with military officials, accusing the EU and US of seeking to “aggravate the situation”.
2:31 p.m. – NATO Secretary General supports the “courageous” Ukrainian people
NATO condemns the “horrific and indiscriminate attacks” launched by Russia against civilian infrastructure in Ukraine and will support the Ukrainian people “as long as it takes”, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday. “I spoke with Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and condemned Russia’s horrific and indiscriminate attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. NATO will continue to support the courageous people of Ukraine to fight against the aggression of the Kremlin for as long as it takes,” he tweeted.
2:24 p.m. – More than 80 Russian missiles sent to Ukraine
According to the Ukrainian Defense, the Russian army launched 83 missiles on Ukraine, two days after an explosion having damaged the Russian bridge of Crimea, strategic infrastructure and symbol of the annexation of this Ukrainian peninsula by Russia. According to the same source, 52 of these missiles were intercepted by the Ukrainian air defense, of which 43 were cruise missiles.