Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that several people were killed and others wounded in multiple attacks on Ukrainian cities, including the first bombing of kyiv in several months.
“The air raid sirens are not helping Ukraine. Unfortunately, there are dead and wounded. Please don’t leave the shelters,” Zelensky said on social media, accusing Russia of wanting to “wipe us off the face of the Earth.” .
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At least eight people were killed and 24 others were injured in strong explosions in kyiv, which took place around 08:15 local time (06:15 in Lisbon) with anti-aircraft sirens sounding in the Ukrainian capital an hour earlier.
The bombing of kyiv comes in a day of airstrikes against several Ukrainian cities.
In the morning there has been the third bombing in five days against the city of Zaporizhia (south), in which, according to some media, one person has died.
Ukrainian media also report several missile explosions in the city of Dnipro, as well as attacks in Zhytomyr, near kyiv, in Khmelnytskyi further east, on the bank of the Bug River from the south, and Ternopil (to the east, in the banks of the river Seret). ).
According to the independent kyiv newspaper, citing Governor Vitaliy Kim, a total of ten S-300 missiles have fallen on the city of Myukolaiv, with no casualties reported so far.
The blasts also come a day after Putin accused the Ukrainian secret services of being behind the blast 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.
Source: TSF
