The Ukrainian capital was shaken by several loud explosions on Monday, one week after Russia organized a huge, nationwide air strike.
Vitaliy Klichko, the mayor of Kyiv, declared that the capital’s Shevchenko neighbourhood had been affected and asked citizens to seek refuge. No other information was immediately available.
The same central Kyiv neighbourhood where a missile damaged a playground for kids and an intersection close to the main buildings of the Kyiv National University was where the explosions originated.
Social media posts revealed that there was a fire in the vicinity of the alleged attack, with black smoke billowing into the morning sun.
Andrii Yermak, the chief of the Ukrainian president’s office, posted on the social media platform Telegram that Russian forces had attacked Kyiv with Iranian Shahed drones. In recent weeks, Russia has regularly attacked metropolitan areas and infrastructure, including power plants, using so-called suicide drones.
In the days prior to the attack on Kyiv, fighting in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk had grown more intense. Additionally, the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the south, close to Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, had continued.
In his evening address last night, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that there was intense combat in the vicinity of the Donetsk area cities of Bakhmut and Soledar.. The majority of the industrial east known as the Donbass is made up of the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, two of which Russia annexed in September in violation of international law.
The Russian-backed government in the Donetsk region claimed on Sunday that Ukraine had shelled its main administrative building directly. There were no casualties reported
