“Such an attack can only be described as piracy and maritime robbery,” he said.<\/p>\n
Writing on social media, Zelenskyy confirmed the strike. “A sanctioned Russian container ship, Yanina, sailing under the Russian flag and with a capacity of more than 100,000 tons, was also struck. Thanks to the precision of our Defense Forces, it was sent to the bottom,” he said.<\/p>\n
Both Russia and Ukraine stepped up attacks in recent weeks on ships they say are aiding the other side’s war effort.<\/p>\n
Russia also intensified its attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. Ukraine relies on U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems, but the Iran war has seen supplies of interceptor missiles previously earmarked for Ukraine diverted to the American military and U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n
Moscow and Kyiv both deny targeting civilians in the war launched by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n
Saturday’s was the second major attack on Kyiv in a week after nine people, including six members of one family in a village near Kryvyi Rih, were killed Thursday and a suspected Russian cruise missile landed in Poland.<\/p>\n
Damage was recorded in seven districts across Kyiv, a city of about 3 million residents, the Prosecutor’s General Office said after Saturday’s attacks.<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy said fires broke out across Kyiv and 18 residential buildings, a school and the Lithuanian Embassy, and infrastructure facilities were damaged.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian prosecutors said seven people were killed in the Darnytskyi district on the left bank of the Dnipro River and two more people died in the Solomyanskyi district on the right bank of the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Such an attack can only be described as piracy and maritime robbery,” he said. Writing on social media,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8492,289,8491,3918,158,8137,602,25,3917,69,26,152,314],"class_list":["post-23576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-anti-ballistic-missile","tag-conflicts","tag-interceptor-aircraft","tag-invasions-of-ukraine","tag-kyiv","tag-mim-104-patriot","tag-missile","tag-russia","tag-russia-ukraine-military-relations","tag-russo-ukrainian-war","tag-ukraine","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}