Putin fires hypersonic missiles at Ukrainians near NATO border

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"Dear fighter: your coffee is free; Muscovite: die."

So reads the message written on a blackboard placed at the door of a grocery store on Reitarska Street, next to the famous Golden Gate.

Inside the business, one of the few that are still open in kyiv, a few neighbors swarm looking for accessory products, increasingly scarce, and numerous fighters from nearby checkpoints, who try to recover by donning elephantine doses of caffeine.

They are being hard nights in Kiev, whose northern arc is still

Confirmed days before that the Russian army no longer messes with those of its size, but has decided to target the civilian population, today it has been known that, in addition, it has decided to do so using state-of-the-art weapons.

More powerful, more lethal.

While Russia acknowledged using

to destroy an arsenal in western Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities warned that advanced missiles had also been launched in Kiev.

"For the first time we have seen a new type of artillery. It was launched by means of a parachute system on residential blocks in kyiv," Anton Heraschenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, explained in the afternoon at a press conference.

"These bombs cause great damage to private buildings. We know that they are using weapons of all kinds, including the cruelest, in Kharkov, Chernigov or Mariupol. These crimes against the Ukrainian nation are nonsense."

A day after it was reported that missiles launched from a Russian frigate anchored in the Black Sea had hit the city of Lviv, the Russian Defense Ministry issued a statement explaining that its newly manufactured Kinzhal missiles had hit the target in a arsenal of the western province of Ivano-Frankivsk.

That is, less than a hundred kilometers from a NATO country.

A video recorded by an amateur, which showed a projectile crossing the sky at full speed wrapped in an aura of light, seemed to confirm the news.

The Khinzal, which translates to 'dagger', are a series of ballistic missiles produced since 2017 capable of reaching

.

Among its possibilities is to equip them with

Ukrainian military sources admit that, due to the behavior of certain types of projectiles, it is very difficult to stop them, thus increasing their lethality exponentially.

One of the fears is that, given the depletion of other missiles in Russian arsenals, their use will increase.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense also shared a series of photos showing huge metal casings, at least a meter and a half long, attached to a white parachute.

At least one of them was located in the courtyard of a house.

All around you could see burnt-out cars and destruction everywhere.

For Heraschenko it is "further evidence" of

committed by Russia."

His goal, he assured him, is "to be held accountable in Ukrainian courts."

The United Nations has confirmed that the majority of civilian victims have died due to artillery bombardment and air strikes, although shootings against civilian vehicles have also been documented.

The dramatic situation in Mariupol

The Ukrainian government has announced the opening of a telephone line so that internally displaced persons, especially those evacuated or coming from areas occupied by Russian forces, can provide evidence of such crimes, in order to compile a future dossier with the control of the responsible for the killings.

"If only with written sources the German army could sit on the bench, what can not be demonstrated now, that there are graphic sources?", considers Heraschenko.

One of the focuses of interest in these investigations is Mariupol, which experienced another black day.

intensified in the

coastal city, besieged by the Russian army, whose troops tried to tighten the siege.

The situation inside Mariupol is dramatic.

At least 350,000 people were isolated, without access to food or drinking water from Ukraine.

"

The city is being destroyed, completely razed to the ground," warned Michail Vershnin, a police chief on the ground, who insistently called for international support.

An aid that is limited in military material, but decisive in economic matters, with Poland requesting new sanctions against Russia.

Late in the afternoon, Defense assured that "Mariupol is still fighting against Russian forces."

Hours earlier, several sources had reported that the Ukrainians had lost connection to the port, thus closing Ukraine's connection to the Sea of ​​Azov.

The news that arrives from the town is confusing, including unverified complaints of harassment by elements of the ultra-Azov brigades, who are fighting from within to break the Russian siege.

Although the Russian troops did not make significant advances, the very possible capture of Mariupol would be a

not to back down.

Not only would it shield the maritime blockade that Ukraine is suffering and that makes it impossible for many countries to receive primary products such as wheat or sunflower oil, but it would also boost the morale of a government in shock at the failure of its rapid offensive.

In the midst of the tragedy, which claimed the lives of at least nine people during the day, the only good news was the evacuations carried out with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Around 700 civilians were able to leave the areas under fire in Severodonetsk, Popasna and Lysychansk, very close to the front lines with the breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine.

In total, according to official sources, more than 6,600 people have been evacuated this Saturday.

In total, at least 190,000 people have been evacuated from areas threatened by the Russian offensive.

Faced with such destruction, the Ukrainian president,

, has once again appealed to the Russians and their president,

Olive branch in hand, he asked her, in a recorded speech on Friday night, to sit face to face and negotiate.

"Peace negotiations, security negotiations for us - meaningful, fair and without delay - are Russia's only chance to reduce the damage of its own mistakes," he said.

"

The time has come for us to meet. It is time for dialogue. It is time to restore territorial integrity and justice for Ukraine. Otherwise, the Russian losses will be so great that several generations will not be enough to recover".

But, in Moscow, they still don't pick up the phone.

Although there are several open negotiation processes, sources close to the meetings have given no signs that they are being fruitful.

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