Ukraine War: Kyiv attacked by Russia for the first time in weeks leaving one person dead and several injured in missile attacks | World News
Ukraine’s capital was hit for the first time in three weeks by Russian missile attacks – as G7 leaders gathered in Germany with invasion high on the agenda.
Officials said a nine-story apartment complex was attacked along with the building of a kindergarten as officials said one person was killed and five others injured in the attacks.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said four people were taken to hospital and a seven-year-old girl was pulled alive from the rubble.
He claimed the airstrikes could be a “symbolic attack” by Moscow ahead of a NATO summit in Madrid this week.
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Smoke rises above a residential building damaged by a Russian missile attack in Kyiv
Andriy Yermak, head of the presidential administration, said: ” Russian beat Kyiv again. The rocket damaged an apartment building and a kindergarten.”
The residential area was smoldering with a crater on the roof as firefighters put it out, and debris was scattered over parked cars outside in the central district of Shevchenkivskiy.
At another site 400 meters away, there was a large explosion hole next to the playground of a private kindergarten with smashed windows. The garages in the area were completely destroyed.
Referring to the Russian attacks, US President Joe Biden said “it is their barbarism”, as he and leaders from seven of the world’s advanced economies attended the conference. summit in Bavaria.
A crater is seen at a complex of a kindergarten following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv
Boris Johnson believes that the West needs to maintain a united front against Russian President Putin.
“The price of backing down, the price of allowing Putin to succeed, to sever large parts of Ukraineto continue with his program of conquest, that price will be far, much higher,” the Prime Minister told reporters.
Up to four explosions were heard in the center of Kyiv. Two more were reported on the southern outskirts of the city but there were no immediate signs of damage, suggesting the missile may have been shot down by a Ukrainian air defense system.
Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko wrote on the messaging app Telegram that “according to previous data, 14 missiles were launched into Kyiv and Kyiv regions”.
Air force spokesman Yuriy Ignat said the missile was an air-launched cruise missile Kh-101 fired from an aircraft over the Caspian Sea.
The last time the capital was hit by Russian air strikes was on June 5.
Explosions were also heard in the central city of Cherkasy, former regional governor Oleksandr Skichko said on Telegram. He did not give more details.
Cherkasy has been largely untouched by shelling since Russia invaded the country in February in what Putin called a special military operation to ensure Russian security and denuclearize Ukraine.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that it used high-precision weapons to attack Ukrainian military training centers in the Chernihiv, Zhytomyr and Lviv regions – a clear example of the airstrikes carried out by Ukraine. news on Saturday.
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Meanwhile, Russian forces are seeking to capture the last remaining Ukrainian stronghold in the eastern region of Luhansk.
They have claimed full control of Severodonetsk and the chemical factory, where hundreds of Ukrainian troops and civilians are gathered.
Serhiy Haidai, governor of the Luhansk region, which includes Severodonetsk, said Russia was conducting heavy air strikes on the neighboring city of Lysychansk, destroying its television tower and severely damaging a road bridge .
“There is so much destruction – Lysychansk is almost unrecognizable,” he wrote on Facebook.
