The Ukrainian capital was the target of strikes on Thursday evening, the first since mid-April. Bombings that take place while UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is visiting the country. The timing of the attack raises questions. As UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres arrived in Ukraine on Wednesday, continuing his visit to the country affected by the war with Russia, strikes hit Kiev. The capital, spared since mid-April by forces from Moscow, was bombed even as a press conference by Volodymyr Zelensky and Antonio Guterres was being held. BFMTV.com returns to this current event. • Two strikes in a residential area It was in the Chevchenkovsky district, located not far from the city center affected on several levels, that the bombings occurred around 8:30 p.m., Ukrainian time. to be able to approach the bombarded building, our teams were able to capture images of a gutted building, where rubble on the ground as well as the remains of a missile were found. In another building, located next to the first, the windows were shattered by the blast of the explosion. A large military force was deployed and help was dispatched to the scene to evacuate the victims of this strike. The debris of a Russian missile in kyiv (Ukraine) on April 28, 2022. © BFMTVAccording to our journalists present on the spot, a factory of armament is not far from the bombarded building. These strikes hit the first levels of a new building located near the factory. […], a military objective which was nearby,” said Michel Goya, BFMTV defense consultant. provisional time and which concerns civilians here. “There were people under the rubble, we managed to extract them, give them first aid and evacuate them to the ambulances”, says Alexander, a member of the defense In front of our camera, he recounts having “taken out injured women and children from under the rubble. They were able to be rescued thanks to us.””A fire broke out following enemy shelling on a 25-storey residential building, the first two floors of which were partially destroyed,” the emergency services said. “According to preliminary data, five people were rescued and ten injured,” they continued on Facebook.• Antonio Guterres “safe” but “shocked”A United Nations spokesman said in the evening that the UN delegation and its leader, Secretary General Antonio Guterres, were “safe”. “It’s a war zone but it’s shocking that it happened near where we were “, wrote Saviano Abreu to journalists. • Strikes aimed at “humiliating” the UN?” This says a lot about the true attitude of Russia towards international institutions, about the efforts of the Russian leadership to humiliate the UN and everything that organized it tion represents”, for his part declared Volodymyr Zelensky in a video posted on his Telegram channel. The defense consultant of BFMTV Michel Goya for his part invites not to “overinterpret” these bombings. Anaïs Crouts, Marion Delpierre and Julie Roeser with Hugues Garnier with AFP