Russian officials are deriding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s wartime visit to the United States, claiming that his whirlwind trip to cement support in Washington proved he and his American allies weren’t “striving for peace” in Ukraine.
, claiming in several statements that his whirlwind trip to cement support in Washington proved he and his American allies weren’t “striving for peace” in Ukraine.
The Moscow-installed leader of Ukraine's partially occupied Donetsk region reported that Ukrainian shelling of a hotel in the city of Donetsk killed two people and wounded several others Wednesday night, including a former Russian deputy prime minister. Russian state TV sought to downplay the military and political support Zelensky has received in Washington, stressing in a news segment that not all members of Congress showed up to listen to Zelensky's speech, Commentators also criticized the Ukrainian leader's “casual attire” during his White House visit with President Joe Biden.
Rogozin was celebrating his birthday at a restaurant when the hotel came under fire, according to reports on Russian social media channels. He wrote in a Telegram post that he had been holding a “work meeting” and was scheduled to undergo surgery because a metal fragment was stuck in his spine above his right shoulder blade.
Rogozin said the hotel in Donetsk had never before come under fire before in the eight years since Russia-backed separatists took control of a large part of the eastern region. He suggested that those behind the shelling must have been tipped off by his presence. The Tass news agency identified the official killed in the Kherson region car bombing as the head of Lyubymivka, a riverside village just inside Russian-held territory on the east bank of the Dnieper River. Ukrainian news reports named him as Andrey Shtepa.
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