cruise missile shot down
Bullet hits near Kiev Central Station
03/02/2022, 10:20 p.m
Thousands of women and children are waiting in Kiev’s main train station for a chance to leave the city. In the evening, a projectile hits near the building. Apparently it is a shot down rocket. Nothing is initially known about the victims.
In the evening there were new airstrikes in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. According to the state-owned railway company Ukrsalisnyzja, a bullet hit the south of the main train station. “The station building held up and was slightly damaged” At the time of the attack, thousands of children and women were to be taken to safety by trains.
Nothing was initially known about possible victims. A video showed smoke rising near the tracks. Train traffic continues, said Ukrsalisnytsia. The Ministry of Defense is near the train station. In Kyiv, as well as in many other cities in the country, an air alarm was sounded in the evening.
According to an adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, the detonation was caused by a shot down Russian cruise missile. This was intercepted by the Ukrainian air defense, explains Anton Herashchenko on the Internet. The falling debris would have hit a heating pipe and triggered the detonation. The resulting casualties and damage are significantly lower than would have been the case with the targeted impact of the rocket in the center of the city. Herashchenko does not provide any information on the number of possible victims.
Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote in the Telegram news channel: “The situation is complicated.” Several explosions could be heard in the city of millions. “Several cars caught fire.” A police station was also damaged. There was fighting in the northern suburbs.