Russia Hits Ukrainian Capital With Worst Bombing Strike Since Summer 2024

In the deadliest attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv since the summer of 2024, Russia launched a combined missile and drone offensive on Wednesday night, burying Ukrainians under rubble, killing eight people, and injuring more than 70 others.

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“The search is continuing for people under rubble … Mobile telephones are heard ringing beneath rubble. The search will continue until it becomes clear that they have got everyone,” the State Emergency Service wrote on Telegram, Reuters reported.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, formerly the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, said that six children and a pregnant woman were injured in the attack. Kyiv is roughly 430 miles from the Polish border.

On July 8, 2024, Russia launched a massive bombing assault on Ukraine in which Russian missiles hit the largest children’s hospital in the country, the Okhmatdyt hospital in Kyiv.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for not recognizing Crimea as part of Russia. After the Soviet Union dissolved in 1992, the Republic of Crimea was formed. In 2014, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was pro-Russian, was removed after protests against him. Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea and annexed it, a move only recognized by North Korea and Sudan.

In 2024, Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, said bluntly, “Ukraine is Russia.”

“Yesterday’s Russian maximalist demands for Ukraine to withdraw from its regions, combined with these brutal strikes, show that Russia, not Ukraine, is the obstacle to peace. Moscow, not Kyiv, is where pressure should be applied,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on X.

Russia reportedly also attacked the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Wednesday night using drones and missiles.

In January, Putin said that any peace settlement between Ukraine and Russia should “eliminate the root causes” of the war between Ukraine and Russia. In 2021, he wrote, “During the recent Direct Line, when I was asked about Russian-Ukrainian relations, I said that Russians and Ukrainians were one people – a single whole. These words were not driven by some short-term considerations or prompted by the current political context. It is what I have said on numerous occasions and what I firmly believe.”

The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro traveled to war-torn Kyiv this week for an exclusive 60-minute face-to-face interview with Zelensky.

Speaking in front of the Saint Sophia Cathedral, Shapiro questioned Zelensky on several topics, including his tense March meeting with President Trump, the substantial amount of American taxpayer money Ukraine is receiving, and prospects for peace with Russia.

The interview will be released in two parts on the Ben Shapiro Show on Thursday and Friday.