the strikes on kyiv are not “strategic”, “children have been killed”, testifies the adviser to the French Abroad

The Ukrainian army says, Monday, October 10, that Russia launched 75 missiles on Ukraine. Several cities were bombed on Monday morning, including Lviv, Dnipro but also the capital kyiv. The provisional toll of the Ukrainian police reports five dead and twelve wounded in the capital.

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In Kyiv, “The shelling started around 8:10 a.m., when I was taking my son to school. They lasted an hour,” tells on franceinfo David Franck, president of the consular council and adviser to French people living abroad in Ukraine.

“I heard the explosions, even heard the missiles flying through the air, it’s impressive”

David Frank

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The capital had not been the target of bombs since last June, recalls David Frank. According to him, theThe strikes of this Monday morning are not “strategic strikes”. The Taras-Shevchenko University was particularly targeted when, according to him “there are no military targets ahead”. “We can see again that Vladimir Putin is at the head of a terrorist state. He hit the city centers, it was children who were killed”, he complains.

Even if the inhabitants of kyiv are used to alerts to take shelter, many were surprised this Monday morning by the bombardments, presice the President of the Consular Council and Advisor to French Citizens Abroad in Ukraine: “We all saw the images of the Crimean bridge but we expected attacks after Putin’s Security Council meeting today”.

The Russian president is meeting his Security Council on Monday, two days after the explosion of a truck bomb on the Crimean bridge. A key structure in the transport of Russian soldiers to Ukraine. Vladimir Putin on Sunday accused the Ukrainian secret service of committing “this terrorist act”.