Three loud explosions were heard in central kyiv on Monday, the AFP news agency reported.
In kyiv, the explosions took place around 8:15 am local time (6:15 am in Lisbon) with anti-aircraft sirens sounding in the Ukrainian capital for an hour before.
“Several explosions in the Shevchenkivskyi district in the center of the capital,” kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
According to the BBCIt is not yet known exactly how many people were killed or injured, but the Ukrainian emergency services speak of several victims.
Several columns of black smoke were visible in different parts of the city, according to videos posted on social networks.
An AFP journalist saw several ambulances in the center of the Ukrainian capital heading towards the sites of the explosions.
The explosions come a day after Putin accused the Ukrainian secret services of being behind the explosion that damaged the Crimean bridge on Saturday, an act the Russian president called “terrorist”.
The last attacks on kyiv had taken place on June 26.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine has already caused the flight of more than 13 million people -more than six million internally displaced persons and more than 7.5 million to European countries-, according to the latest data from the UN, which places this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
The Russian invasion – justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin, with the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security – was condemned by the international community in general, which has responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political sanctions on Russia. and economic. .
The UN presented as confirmed since the beginning of the war 6,114 civilian deaths and 9,132 wounded, highlighting that these figures are far below the real ones.
Source: TSF
