KIEBO. In view of the expected Ukrainian counterattack, the President of the country Vladimir Zelensky traveled to Moldova yesterday to put pressure on European leaders to support Kyiv’s NATO membership. At the same time, he reiterated his request to send Western fighter jets to protect Ukrainian airspace, especially after yesterday’s deadly Russian attack on the capital. Prosecutors in Kiev are investigating after reports that three people, including a 9-year-old girl, were killed in a Russian raid in the Ukrainian capital after they failed to enter a locked bunker and were crushed under rubble. Another 19 people were injured as a result of night shelling. The mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitali Klitschko, said that a rocket fragment fell at the entrance to medical facilities four minutes after the alarm was announced and when people were heading to the shelter. “The investigation is expected to find out if the shelter was opened,” he said, adding that three schools, a kindergarten, six houses and a police station were destroyed. “My wife died because they didn’t open the door to the orphanage,” said the husband of a 33-year-old woman who was killed during yesterday’s raids.

At the same time, the city of Sebekino in Russia for several hours became the object of an “incessant fire”, as a result of which eight people were injured and several buildings were damaged. This was announced yesterday by the governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov. “Sebekino is under incessant shelling,” Gladkov complained to Telegram, accusing Ukrainian forces of shelling the “center and periphery” of the city. “Of course, the lives of civilians are at risk. Mostly in Sebekino and the surrounding villages,” Gladkov specified, explaining that the evacuation of residents would be organized “when the situation calms down.” According to him, “the enemy did not penetrate the territory of the Belgorod region,” but “massive fire continues.” The Kremlin condemned the lack of criticism from the international community after Ukrainian strikes in Russia’s Belgorod region on the border with Ukraine, where Russia said it had repelled a major offensive. “The international community has every opportunity to see pictures, read articles describing hits on residential buildings, infrastructure facilities, etc.,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “And so far not a word criticizing or condemning the Kyiv regime for this,” he said.

The Wagner Group will continue to fight in Ukraine until the “Moscow clowns” are in power. A new ultimatum was sent yesterday by the head of the group of mercenaries Yevgeny Prigozhin. While celebrating his 62nd birthday at the training center, Wagner’s supervisor warned that “if the whole chain of command is 100% failed and run by clowns who turn people into meat, we will not participate in it.” He also explained that his people would completely withdraw from Bahamut on Monday.

Meanwhile, yesterday’s meeting of the “27” members of the EU. and 20 other European countries in Moldova were held at the castle just 20km from the Ukrainian border and very close to Transnistria, the Moscow-backed separatist region of Moldova. European leaders used this event as a symbolic sign of solidarity with Ukraine and Moldova. Zelenskiy even urged the international community to provide “security guarantees” to Ukraine and neighboring Moldova to ensure both countries are permanently protected from Russia. He was the first to arrive at the 47 summit in Moldova and, among other things, confirmed the need for a “fighter alliance” and Patriot missiles.