The Ukrainian authorities announced the activation of anti-aircraft missiles to counter a new wave of Russian missile strikes today, Thursday morning, as explosions were heard in the capital, Kyiv.
Ukraine's presidential advisor Oleksiy Aristovich announced on Facebook that more than 100 missiles were launched in several waves, and that air raid sirens could be heard across the country.
This came moments after an air alert was declared in the capital and throughout Ukraine, as Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko called on the city's residents to abide by air warnings and said that there was a possible Russian missile attack.
At the same time, Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that anti-aircraft missiles were activated in Odessa province, southern Ukraine.
In field developments as well, the Ukrainian General Staff announced this morning that its forces had wounded 230 Russian soldiers in the regions of Tokmak, Titov and Berdyansk in Zaporizhia province in the south of the country, and said that work is underway to determine the number of Russian dead there.
The authority said that the Ukrainian bombing destroyed a command center for the Russian forces and another communications center in Zaporizhia, in addition to hitting 3 units of various military equipment.
It added that in the past hours, the Ukrainian aviation carried out 17 raids on the sites of the Russian forces and 4 raids on the sites of missile systems.
At the same time, the Ukrainian General Staff stated that in the past hours, Russian forces launched 30 air raids and more than 70 missile systems attacks on Ukrainian sites in the south and east of the country.
For its part, the Ukrainian military administration in the Zaporizhia region said that Russian forces bombed the outskirts of the city last night.
It explained that the Russian missiles destroyed several buildings and damaged gas pipelines and electricity lines.
Russia rejects Zelensky's "illusions".
Politically, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov expressed his country's refusal to adopt what he described as the peace formula proposed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a basis for negotiations, and he believed that Kyiv was still not ready for real peace talks.
Lavrov said in statements to the Russian Information Agency (RIA) today, Thursday, that the ideas put forward by Zelensky regarding the withdrawal of Russian forces from the Donbass, Crimea, Zaporizhia and Kherson, the payment of compensation and the recognition of international courts are "pure illusions," stressing that Russia will not talk to any party under these conditions. Circumstances.
The Russian Foreign Minister said that if Moscow returns to joint work with the West, it will be on a new basis because the old methods are no longer effective, as he put it.
Lavrov accused the West of turning the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe into "a media war zone hostile to Russia," and said that Poland, which currently heads the organization, contributed to reducing the results of the organization's work to zero.
In another file, the Russian Foreign Minister said that the West did not provide evidence of Iran supplying drones to Russia.
He added that Western countries raised a fuss in the UN Security Council about alleged supplies of Iranian marches to Russia, and as usual everything was presented in a "high probability" fashion, as he put it.