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Russia likely struck an airport in Kyiv.
Special envoys of the U.S. president, Steve Vitkoff and Jared Kushner, during their visit to Ukraine were planning to fly on a plane that, as they intended, was to land at Boryspil Airport. This was reported by Member of Parliament from European Solidarity Oleksii Honcharenko.
“Vitkoff and Kushner were to FLY to Kyiv on Sunday after visiting Moscow on Saturday. The most interesting thing in that sentence is that they were to land in Boryspil by plane. That was at the stage of coordination. The Americans had doubts, but they were quite close to agreeing,” Honcharenko said.
At the same time, he noted that 4 in September the Russians struck a plane with a drone that was parked at the Igor Sikorsky International Airport Kyiv, also known as Zhulyany. There is no official confirmation of a strike on the airport yet. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko only stated that “in the Solomianskyi district there was a fire on the territory of non-residential development.”
“So most likely Vitkoff and Kushner WILL COME to Kyiv on Sunday,” Honcharenko added.
Later Honcharenko added that two old Yak-40 planes preliminarily arrived. According to the MP, these are old planes that had not flown since before the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and, accordingly, the closure of Ukrainian airspace.
“In essence, Putin is sending a signal to the Americans — I don’t want to negotiate and I won’t. Otherwise why this demonstrative strike? It’s unclear. Obviously, he is also aware of the idea that Vitkoff and Kushner were to fly from Moscow to Kyiv,” the MP concluded.
Recall that at the end of July media wrote that Vitkoff and Kushner had agreed to come to Ukraine at the invitation of President Volodymyr Zelensky. It was expected that their visit would take place before the 35-th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence, but later it became known that it had been postponed. Later a Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist explained that the reason for the postponement was an intensification of Russian attacks.
Note that recently the Russians have begun to frequently attack Boryspil and the Boryspil district of Kyiv region. Most recently, on 1 September the enemy struck the district center where the airport is located, causing three vehicles to catch fire. Rescuers extinguished a fire covering 50 sq. m. A residential 5-story building, a shop, and two private houses were damaged. People were injured there, including children born in 2021 and 2010.
A few days earlier, the Russians destroyed warehouses of Comfy, Dom Ighrashok (House of Toys), Roshen and other companies in Boryspil. Then employees of the state international airport Boryspil, units of the local fire service and village fire brigades from surrounding villages were already involved in extinguishing the fire.
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