Kyiv:
At the least two folks had been killed and 54 wounded after a missile assault on Kyiv early Thursday, the town mayor stated.
Ukrainian authorities issued an alert for a missile assault, and AFP journalists heard explosions throughout the capital.
“Kyiv is being attacked by enemy missiles,” the town’s navy authorities stated on Telegram.
Hours later, metropolis mayor Vitali Klitschko stated: “two folks had been killed within the capital”.
“54 folks had been injured. 38 of them, together with 6 kids, had been hospitalised,” he stated in a Telegram submit.
In a bomb shelter arrange in a basement of a residential constructing, over a dozen residents gathered after the air alert began, an AFP journalist witnessed.
Kyiv was final hit by missiles in early April when at the very least three folks had been wounded.
It has been the goal of sporadic assaults since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
In Ukraine’s east, the town of Kharkiv was hit by seven missiles, metropolis mayor Igor Terekhov stated, including later that “an enormous drone assault” on the town was ongoing.
“Keep secure!” stated Terekhov.
Andriy Yermak, a high aide to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, stated Russia was attacking Kyiv, Kharkiv and different cities “with missiles and drones proper now”.
“Putin reveals solely a want to kill,” he stated. “The assaults on civilians should cease.”
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