And they tried to put up a cover story that they were trying to hit a meeting of Ukrainian military leaders or foreign arms dealers or some such - likely more bullshit rationalization.
Russian missiles struck two university complexes Friday morning in the southern city of Mykolaiv, heavily damaging nearby shops and buildings and injuring at least four people, the regional governor said. Washington Post reporters heard explosions in the city starting around 7:30 a.m. local time. An official investigating possible war crimes could be seen examining a crater caused by one of the weapons, which the governor identified as S-300 surface-to-air missiles.
President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced Russia as a “terrorist state” after a missile attack on civilian targets in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia left at least 23 dead Thursday. Searching continues for dozens of people still missing. Russia, which has denied causing civilian casualties throughout the war despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, claimed Friday that the Vinnytsia strike targeted a meeting between Ukrainian officials and foreign arms dealers.
Photos show aftermath of deadly Vinnytsia strike
Far from the front lines of Russia’s war on Ukraine, a woman laid red roses near the target of a missile strike that killed at least 23 people in Vinnytsia on Thursday.
Rescuers waded through buildings with collapsed walls and shattered windows. A forklift took away the scorched husks of cars.
In aftermath of the attack on a crowded business complex, photos showed residents picking up the pieces. A damaged high-rise office block towered over them as firefighters rested nearby.
Three children were among the dead, one of them a child with Down syndrome named Lisa, Ukrainian officials said.
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Firefighters take a break near a building that was hit in downtown Vinnytsia.
Scores of people were injured, and some were still missing as of late Thursday, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed Friday that its missiles targeted a meeting of the command of the Ukrainian armed forces, according to Russian news agency Tass. Ukrainian officials accused Moscow of striking a location with no military targets and shared images that appeared to show a bloodied child and a stroller lying on a street littered with debris.
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Near the damaged office building, men put a scorched car on a carrier.
E.U. proposes additional sanctions on Russia
BRUSSELS — The European Commission on Friday proposed additional sanctions on Russia for the war in Ukraine, as well as measures to tighten existing sanctions, according to E.U. officials.
The “maintenance and alignment package” takes aim at imports of Russian gold and includes measures aimed at better implementing and enforcing the sanctions.
The package “clarifies a number of provisions to strengthen legal certainty for operators and enforcement by Member States,” according to an E.U. statement. It also “reiterates the Commission’s determined stance to protect food security around the globe.”
The proposal could still change and must be approved by all member states. E.U. diplomats said the hope is that countries will formally approve the measures next week. If that happens, it will be the bloc’s seventh round of sanctions since Russia launched its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.
“Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine continues unabated,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement published Friday. “Therefore, we are proposing today to tighten our hard-hitting EU sanctions against the Kremlin, enforce them more effectively and extend them until January 2023. Moscow must continue to pay a high price for its aggression.”
Although E.U. sanctions have hurt Russia’s economy, the country continues to generate revenue by exporting energy, including natural gas and oil. The seventh package is not expected to include measures on gas or any additional measures on oil, ensuring that cash keeps flowing to the Kremlin’s coffers.
Though some E.U. countries have called for a full and immediate energy embargo, many member states worry that such a move would destabilize the global economy and push Europe even closer to a recession.
The United States is pushing for a new global price cap on Russian oil as a way to diminish Russia’s massive revenue from energy sales. E.U. diplomats said the idea is being discussed but is unlikely to gain traction before autumn, if at all.
Paolo Gentiloni, European commissioner for economy, told reporters Thursday that the commission is reviewing the proposal on price caps but that such measures would be considered only in “extraordinary future scenarios.”
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Russian missiles struck two university complexes Friday morning in the southern city of Mykolaiv, heavily damaging nearby shops and buildings and injuring at least four people, the regional governor said. Washington Post reporters heard explosions in the city starting around 7:30 a.m. local time. An official investigating possible war crimes could be seen examining a crater caused by one of the weapons, which the governor identified as S-300 surface-to-air missiles.
President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced Russia as a “terrorist state” after a missile attack on civilian targets in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia left at least 23 dead Thursday. Searching continues for dozens of people still missing. Russia, which has denied causing civilian casualties throughout the war despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, claimed Friday that the Vinnytsia strike targeted a meeting between Ukrainian officials and foreign arms dealers.
Photos show aftermath of deadly Vinnytsia strike
A Russian missile strike on an office complex Thursday
killed at least 23 people in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia.
(Alexey Furman/Getty Images)
Far from the front lines of Russia’s war on Ukraine, a woman laid red roses near the target of a missile strike that killed at least 23 people in Vinnytsia on Thursday.
Rescuers waded through buildings with collapsed walls and shattered windows. A forklift took away the scorched husks of cars.
A woman lays flowers at the site of the attack.
(Roman Pilipey/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)
In aftermath of the attack on a crowded business complex, photos showed residents picking up the pieces. A damaged high-rise office block towered over them as firefighters rested nearby.
Three children were among the dead, one of them a child with Down syndrome named Lisa, Ukrainian officials said.
(Roman Pilipey/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
Scores of people were injured, and some were still missing as of late Thursday, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed Friday that its missiles targeted a meeting of the command of the Ukrainian armed forces, according to Russian news agency Tass. Ukrainian officials accused Moscow of striking a location with no military targets and shared images that appeared to show a bloodied child and a stroller lying on a street littered with debris.
(Alexey Furman/Getty Images)
E.U. proposes additional sanctions on Russia
BRUSSELS — The European Commission on Friday proposed additional sanctions on Russia for the war in Ukraine, as well as measures to tighten existing sanctions, according to E.U. officials.
The “maintenance and alignment package” takes aim at imports of Russian gold and includes measures aimed at better implementing and enforcing the sanctions.
The package “clarifies a number of provisions to strengthen legal certainty for operators and enforcement by Member States,” according to an E.U. statement. It also “reiterates the Commission’s determined stance to protect food security around the globe.”
The proposal could still change and must be approved by all member states. E.U. diplomats said the hope is that countries will formally approve the measures next week. If that happens, it will be the bloc’s seventh round of sanctions since Russia launched its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.
“Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine continues unabated,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement published Friday. “Therefore, we are proposing today to tighten our hard-hitting EU sanctions against the Kremlin, enforce them more effectively and extend them until January 2023. Moscow must continue to pay a high price for its aggression.”
Although E.U. sanctions have hurt Russia’s economy, the country continues to generate revenue by exporting energy, including natural gas and oil. The seventh package is not expected to include measures on gas or any additional measures on oil, ensuring that cash keeps flowing to the Kremlin’s coffers.
Though some E.U. countries have called for a full and immediate energy embargo, many member states worry that such a move would destabilize the global economy and push Europe even closer to a recession.
The United States is pushing for a new global price cap on Russian oil as a way to diminish Russia’s massive revenue from energy sales. E.U. diplomats said the idea is being discussed but is unlikely to gain traction before autumn, if at all.
Paolo Gentiloni, European commissioner for economy, told reporters Thursday that the commission is reviewing the proposal on price caps but that such measures would be considered only in “extraordinary future scenarios.”
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