While Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on the night of Wednesday to Thursday a “military operation” in Ukraine, the Ukrainians who live in Alsace are very worried. This is the case of Liudmila Ilchuk, the president of the Promoukraïna association, which organizes rallies in Strasbourg to support the Ukrainian people.
They say they heard a lot of bombs in Odessa
“My voice is shaking a bit because my morning started at 4am after the first news from Ukraine“, says Liudmila. Since then she has been contacting her family and friends who live in Ukraine.”They say they heard a lot of bombs in Odessa, plane noise, flash bombs“. In capital, Kiev “it’s panic, because next to the city there are strategic places of the Ukrainian army and the Russians began to bomb here“.
According to initial information, explosions were actually heard this Thursday already in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, as well as in the cities of Mariupol and Kramatorsk or Odessa.