The final prosecutor’s workplace mentioned preliminary info indicated one individual was killed and 4 injured; Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned 4 folks had been taken to hospital with accidents and a seven-year-old woman was pulled alive from the rubble.
Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko wrote on the Telegram messaging app that “in accordance with prelim knowledge, 14 missiles had been launched towards Kyiv area and Kyiv”.
Russia has attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv for the primary time in weeks, with missiles putting no less than two residential buildings.
Within the metropolis of Cherkasy, about 100 miles south-east of Kyiv, one individual was killed and 5 injured in strikes by two Russian rockets, regional governor Ihor Taburets mentioned.
Earlier than the assault, Kyiv had not confronted any Russian air strikes since June 5.
Mr Klitschko mentioned he believes it might have been “a symbolic assault” by Russia forward of this week’s Nato summit in Madrid.
Two extra explosions had been later heard in Kyiv, however their trigger and doable casualties weren’t instantly clear.
In the meantime, Russian troops try to consolidate their features within the east, swallowing up the final remaining Ukrainian stronghold in Luhansk area following the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the charred ruins of Sievierodonetsk.
The army mentioned Moscow-backed separatists at the moment are in full management of the chemical plant that was the final Ukrainian holdout within the metropolis.
Russia launched dozens of missiles on a number of areas throughout the nation removed from the center of the japanese battles on Saturday.
Among the missiles had been fired from Russian long-range Tu-22 bombers deployed from Belarus for the primary time, Ukraine’s air command mentioned.
The bombardment preceded a gathering between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, throughout which Mr Putin introduced that Russia deliberate to provide Belarus with the Iskander-M missile system.
Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov mentioned late on Saturday that Russian and Moscow-backed separatist forces now management Sievierodonetsk and the villages surrounding it.
He mentioned the try by Ukrainian forces to show the Azot plant right into a “cussed centre of resistance” had been thwarted.
Serhiy Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk province, confirmed on Friday that Ukrainian troops had been retreating from Sievierodonetsk after weeks of bombardment and house-to-house combating.
