The world condemns Russia’s massive missile attack on Ukrainian cities. Rakurs collected the reactions of Western politicians to a large-scale missile attack on Ukraine on the morning of October 10.
The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said she was shocked by Russian missile attacks on Ukrainian cities.
Shocked and amazed at the brutal attacks on Ukrainian cities. Putin’s Russia has once again shown the world what it stands for: brutality and terror. I know that the Ukrainians will remain strong. We will support Ukraine for as long as necessary, with all the means at our disposal,” Von der Leyen wrote on Twitter.
The European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, was in Kyiv on Monday morning and waited out massive Russian missile strikes in hiding. All meetings during the visit of the European Commissioner have been canceled, but Reynders himself has already arrived in Kyiv, so he had to go down to the shelter.
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink met with the President of Ukraine and stressed that the U.S. “strongly condemns Russian strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure and intends to hold Russia accountable for war crimes and atrocities committed in Ukraine.”
The goals of the indiscriminate attack on the civilian population are destruction and instilling fear. But the world has seen the determination of the Ukrainian people,” Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili said.
The cruelty, terror and killing of innocent civilians must be stopped immediately, this is the reaction of Moldovan President Maia Sandu.
Such actions have no place in the 21st century. I condemn them. We support Ukraine,” said Josep Borrell, head of European diplomacy.
Russia has once again shown its cowardly face and should be declared a terrorist-sponsored state, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinssalu believes.
Missiles are aimed at city centers, residential buildings, roads during rush hour. This is state terrorism in its purest form, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda is convinced.
They will be held accountable – this is how European Parliament President Roberta Metsola insists on the inadmissibility of concessions from the West under Russian blackmail.
Putin did not understand that Ukrainians cannot be broken by this,” said Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte and stressed that support for Ukraine would continue.
The foreign ministers of Finland and Lithuania called the Russian missile strikes on the civilian population a war crime.
Estonian President Alar Karis reacted emotionally to the Russian terror: “Parents do not know if they will have a family and a home in the morning.” Estonia is preparing the official recognition of Russia as a terrorist state.
Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics called for more weapons to be provided to Ukraine after the shelling of Kyiv and Zaporozhye by Russian troops.
Source: Racurs
