During talks between UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, airstrikes hit the city. this . announced Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of Zelensky's office,
“The day before yesterday he [Gutteres] was sitting at a long table in the Kremlin, and today explosions are heard a kilometer away from him. A postcard from Moscow? Remind me why Russia still occupies a seat in the UN Security Council?” Podolyak wrote.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on his telegram channel that two rockets hit buildings in the Shevchenko district of the city. “All services are in place. Information about the victims is being specified," Klitschko said.
UPDATE
20:58 Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko specified that at least three people were injured as a result of the airstrike. According to him, one of the rockets hit the lower floors of a residential building.
Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk said that after Zelensky’s talks with Guterres, “there was hope that civilians could be evacuated from Azovstal.” According to her, the UN Secretary General together with the President of Ukraine began to plan a humanitarian operation.
António Guterres arrived in Kyiv after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. At a meeting with the UN Secretary General, Putin said that the hostilities in Mariupol had been completed, and an order had been given not to carry out assault operations on the territory of the Azovstal plant. Putin also said that nearly 1,300 Ukrainian servicemen had surrendered.
Later it became known that the office of the UN Secretary General claims that Putin agreed to involve the UN and the Red Cross in the evacuation of civilians from Azovstal.