Vladimir Putin has fueled rumours that he is battling Parkinson's or another serious illness after appearing "unsteady and distracted" at Easter service.
15.04.2022 - 13:47 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Russian military have attacked Kyiv with an air assault and promised more missile assaults following the sinking of one of their top ships in the Black Sea.
Air raid sirens were going off across Ukraine throughout last night with powerful explosions heard in the capital and other cities.
Loud explosions were also heard in the southern city of Kherson, the eastern city of Kharkiv and in Ukraine’s western city of Ivano-Frankivsk, on Thursday night, repot Mirror Online.
Footage shared on social media have displayed the sky above Kyiv lit up by explosions in what appear to be the most serious attacks since the Russian army began to withdraw from the area earlier this month.
Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko said that there had been three explosions in Kyiv and believes the attacks are a response by Vladimir Putin to the sinking of the Moskva, the pride of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea.
She tweeted: “3 explosions in #Kyiv right now. One after the other. The air raid warning has been on for an hour. Most likely #putin gone livid because of the #Moskva sinking. Oh well, we’ll just keep standing to #Russia’s annoyance.”
She earlier wrote: “Sirens in every single region of #Ukraine. This means again that #Russia launched missiles and fighter jets. All over #Ukraine. Concentrating in the east of course.”
Another Twitter user in Kyiv filmed what appeared to be a missile in the sky and said that lights have gone out in the city.
They wrote: “After a powerful explosion, something important is on fire and the light went out in part of Kiev.”
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ordered a military operation on its neighbouring country in February.“The Russian people are not responsible for the crazy, unacceptable excesses of their leaders like Vladimir Putin,” Depardieu, who has previously praised the Russian leader, said in a statement to French news agency AFP (per France 24).“Russia and Ukraine have always been brother countries,” he continued. “Stop the weapons and negotiate.”On Friday (April 1), Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson for Putin, responded to Depardieu’s comments, telling reporters that the actor probably did not completely understand the situation in Ukraine and offered to explain it.“Since the president is mentioned there, I will assume that Depardieu most likely does not fully understand what is happening,” Peskov said on Friday (via News Interfax).He continued: “Due to the fact that he is not completely immersed in the political agenda, he does not understand what happened in Ukraine in 1914, he does not understand what the Minsk agreements are, he does not understand what Donetsk and Lugansk are, he hardly understands what is the bombing of civilians, he is unlikely to know about nationalist elements.”“If necessary, we will be ready to tell him all this and explain it so that he understands better. If he wants,” Peskov concluded.Depardieu left France and took up Russian nationality in 2013 to protest a proposed tax hike on the rich in his homeland.