kraine’s capital Kyiv was hit by missile strikes on Tuesday afternoon – which noticed two residential buildings hit.
The town’s mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned on social media channel Telegram that medics and rescuers have been being scrambled to the scene of the assaults, within the Pechersk district of central Kyiv.
Photographs from the scene confirmed firefighters working to extinguish a fireplace in a residential constructing that was left blackened after being hit.
The strikes break what had been a interval of comparative calm since earlier waves of drone and missile assaults a number of weeks in the past.
He wrote on Telegram: “Assault on the capital. Within the Pechersky distrcit, for advance data, in two dwelling homes. Kilka missiles shot dw
“One other one within the Pechersk area. Bagatoverhivka.”
Citing preliminary data, Mr Klitschko added that a number of missiles had additionally been shot down within the assault, which he mentioned had been carried out by Russia.
Eyewitnesses reported listening to no less than two explosions in Kyiv on Tuesday afternoon, whereas smoke could possibly be seen rising over the town.
The blasts adopted air raid warnings throughout Ukraine, hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a video handle to leaders of the Group of 20 nations who’re at present assembly at a summit in Bali.
Andriy Yermak, chief of the presidential employees, strongly condemned the assault on Twitter, writing: “Russia responds to @Zelenskiy’s highly effective speech at #G20 with a brand new missile assault. Does anybody severely assume that the Kremlin actually desires peace? It desires obedience. However on the finish of the day, terrorists all the time lose.”
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