Ukraine calls for new sanctions as Russia hits Kyiv amid prisoner exchanges | Russia-Ukraine war News

Ukrainian officials have renewed their calls to more sanctions to Russia after Russian forces launched attack boxes and ballistic missiles in Kyiv during the night before a second exchange of soldiers and civilians.

The Ukraine army said on Saturday that night attacks launched by multiple Russian regions used 250 drones and 14 ballistic missiles to hit kyiv, damaging seriously buildings and a shopping center, and reed at least 15 people.

The sites in the Ukrainian regions of Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa and Zaporizhia were also beaten, and the Ukrainian forces say that six of the ballistic missiles were shot down by their aerial defenders, many of which Wery.

Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, said on Saturday morning that four Ukrainians were killed and several other injured in the last 24 hours in the region as a result of multiple Russian attacks.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said on Saturday that at least 100 Ukrainian drones tried to achieve Russian goals during the night. He said that 64 unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down during the night in the heavens of the Belgorod region, along with 10 additional drones launched on Saturday morning.

Boxes demolished more projectiles about Kursk, Lipetsk and Voronezh and five others were shot down by Tver to the northwest of Moscow, he said.

The last air attacks occurred hours after the two parties released 270 military and 120 civilians on the Ukrainian border with Belarus, as part of the greatest exchange of prisoners since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine of Russia in 2022.

Both parties have agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners, and more exchanges are expected soon.

‘Difficult night’

In a publication on social networks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy said that the country had another “difficult night” that he thinks convince the world that “the reason why the war is dragged is in Moscow.”

“It is obvious that we need to exert much more pressure on Russia to obtain results and begin real diplomacy. We are waiting for sanctions from the United States, Europe and all our partners. Only additional sanctions against the key sectors of the Russian economy will shoot.” ”

The group of seven (G7) nations threatened Friday to impose more sanctions on Russia if it does not accept fire with Ukraine.

Ukraine Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said a week after the conversations in the capital of Turkiye Istanbul led only to an agreement on the exchange of prisoners of war, which Moscow has not yet sent any “Peace Memorandum.”

“On the other hand, Russia sends donuts and mortal missiles to civilians,” Hey wrote in an X publication, and added that “a greater pressure of sanctions on Moscow is necessary to accelerate the peace process.”

When informing of kyiv, John Hendren, from Al Jazeera, said the Istanbul meeting was disappointing for Zenskyy because he wanted a face -to -face meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin.

“On the other hand, it was a very lower level meeting. But they managed to obtain this exchange of prisoners,” he said that the exchanges could be Sunday, but that the details were not clear.

“Zenskyy has been disappointed by the lack of additional sanctions of the United States against Russia. Europe has agreed to new sanctions, but it is not clear that they will really have the desired effect to take Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table.”