US President Joe Biden and leaders of G7 and NATO nations met while in Bali for G20 to discuss the missile hitting Poland.Credit:AP
Ukrainians,again,spent hours huddled in bunkers waiting for the missile shower to end. At least one person died and six were wounded.
It now appears likely that,in an attempt to shoot down one of the missiles coming down over western Ukraine,its air-defence system fired a missile that then went over the border and into the Polish village of Przewodow.
More than 20 of the Russian missiles were destined for Kyiv,with Ukraine’s air defence system able to intercept 18 of them. At least three missiles hit,destroying an apartment building in the centre of the city.
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The missile strike started just as we reached the outskirts of the capital after a 10-hour drive from the country’s east. We spent a few hours bunkered down on the side of the road and then at a service station,before tentatively making our way into the city of 3 million people which had been plunged into darkness.
It’s a reminder,on my way out the country,of what Ukrainians must continue to endure. After spending almost three weeks in the south and east of the country witnessing the daily carnage brought about by the war on and near the front line,another missile attack shouldn’t shock me.
But there is something about Tuesday afternoon’s strike that seems particularly egregious. After Russian President Vladimir Putin suffered a series of major setbacks on the battlefield,his military clearly wants to target civilian infrastructure to continue making life as difficult as possible.