{"id":4518,"date":"2025-04-07T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T14:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/4518\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T14:44:17","slug":"moscow-says-airstrike-targeted-military-meeting-ukraine-says-9-kids-were-killed-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/4518\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow says airstrike targeted military meeting; Ukraine says 9 kids were killed \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said\u00a0that these\u00a0strikes \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/news\/vsi-rosijski-obicyanki-zakinchuyutsya-raketami-i-dronami-bom-97065\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/news\/vsi-rosijski-obicyanki-zakinchuyutsya-raketami-i-dronami-bom-97065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cannot be accidental<\/a>,\u201d in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1908261160459145426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post on X<\/a>. \u201cThe Russians know exactly what they\u2019re hitting,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is critically important not to leave this Russian strike on civilians, on the city \u2014 every such strike \u2014 without a response from the world,\u201d the\u00a0president said in another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1908475439657398284\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several European leaders condemned the attack. \u201cRussia continues to destroy Ukraine, no interest in peace,\u201d EU High Representative Kaja Kallas\u00a0said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/kajakallas\/status\/1908227163473555939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post on X<\/a>. She called the images from Kryvyi Rih, Zelenskyy&#8217;s hometown, \u201ctragic and inhumane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said that \u201cthis is why we need to accelerate support for Ukraine,\u201d in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DefensieMin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post on X<\/a>.\u00a0Jan Lipavsk\u00fd,\u00a0Czechia\u2019s foreign minister,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JanLipavsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called<\/a>\u00a0the attack \u201cbarbarism.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy, expressed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/videos\/vsi-rosijski-obicyanki-zakinchuyutsya-raketami-i-dronami-bom-7557\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/videos\/vsi-rosijski-obicyanki-zakinchuyutsya-raketami-i-dronami-bom-7557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gratitude for support<\/a> from European countries as well as Japan, the United Kingdom and Switzerland following the attack, but said he found the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USAmbKyiv\/status\/1908240767040315559\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">response<\/a>\u00a0from American Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink \u201csurprisingly disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch a strong country, such a strong people, and yet such a weak reaction. They are afraid\u00a0to even say the word &#8216;Russian&#8217; when speaking about the missile that murdered children,\u201d Zelenskyy said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/1908475439657398284\" target=\"_blank\">post on X<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said\u00a0that these\u00a0strikes \u201ccannot be accidental,\u201d in a\u00a0post on X. \u201cThe Russians know exactly what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2594,28,473,2595,1824,2122,2596,2597,2598,12,2599,332,2600,657,15,2601,335,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-4518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-buildings","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-drones","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-japan","14":"tag-kaja-kallas","15":"tag-military","16":"tag-missiles","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-restaurant","19":"tag-russia","20":"tag-switzerland","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","24":"tag-war-in-ukraine","25":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114297219485182955","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}