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Added on the 02/07/2023 07:19:15 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Smoke rises from damaged buildings in Kyiv after Russia launched dozens of missiles in a rare day-time barrage targeting several Ukrainian cities, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. IMAGES
Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv early Thursday, killing at least three people including two children and bringing fresh terror to the city after a week of strikes. IMAGES
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez lays a wreath in Kyiv in memory of those killed in Ukraine before meeting President Volodymyr Zelensky during a visit ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion. IMAGES
The UN considers that there is a "strong probability" that the children's hospital in Kyiv was hit by a "direct hit" from a Russian missile, according to the representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Ukraine, who speaks remotly during a UN press briefing in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
A hospital in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv is evacuating its patients and staff over fears of Russian strikes following claims by Belarus's secret services that it, along with another medical facility, hosted military personnel. "The city is urgently beginning to evacuate two hospitals... because a video is widely circulated online, actually de facto announcing an enemy attack on these medical facilities," Kyiv's city administration said. IMAGES
Aerial footage released by a pro-Ukraine militia shows an alleged drone attack on a Russian armoured military vehicle in a village on the Kursk border region. Additional images published by another volunteer group also claim to show a gun battle on the border. IMAGES