A series of explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital on Monday morning, according to several witnesses.A national alert is in effect against Russian air attacks.Follow the latest news live.
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THREE DEAD
At least three people were killed Monday in western and southern Ukraine, the targets of a massive Russian attack on much of the country, Ukrainian officials said.
On Instagram, the heads of the Dnipropetrovsk region in the southeast of the country and Zaporizhzhia in the south, as well as the mayor of Lutsk in the northwest, reported one victim in each of their areas.
ENERGY SITES TARGETED
Russia has targeted energy production sites in the Lviv region in western Ukraine, causing partial blackouts, regional governor Maksym Kozytsky said on Telegram on Monday.
The attacks are part of a broader campaign of deadly Russian bombings of Ukraine early Monday.
kyiv WAKES UP WITH EXPLOSIONS
LCI correspondent in kyiv Marianne Kottenhoff heard several detonations this morning. “This is the work of the anti-aircraft defense,” she testifies. An anti-aircraft defense “very active” in the capital, while “many drones” were sent to the city.
Explosions heard in kyivSource : TF1 Info
EXPLOSIONS IN kyiv
At least seven explosions rang out over the Ukrainian capital kyiv on Monday morning, AFP journalists reported, as a national alert against Russian air attacks was in effect.
Telegram channels reported explosions in other regions of the country, including in the northwestern city of Lutsk. “A residential building was damaged in an enemy attack in Lutsk,” said the mayor of the northwestern city, Igor Polishchuk, adding that one person had died there.
UPDATE ON THE SITUATION
HOTEL TARGETED IN UKRAINE. Two Reuters news agency staff were injured and a third died after an overnight strike on a hotel in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine. The agency added that three other members of its team were unharmed.
UKRAINIAN INCURSION. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday claimed “advances” in Russia’s Kursk region and the capture of two villages, more than two weeks after launching an offensive. “I just spoke to Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky, and there are advances of our troops in the Kursk region. From one to three kilometers. We have taken control of two more villages,” Zelensky said in his daily message, adding that fighting was “underway in another village.”
OPPOSITION OF THE POPE. The day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promulgated a law banning the Moscow-linked Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Pope Francis reacted and deplored the decision. “We don’t touch the Churches,” he declared, expressing his disapproval. “Thinking about the laws recently adopted in Ukraine, I fear for the freedom of those who pray,” the pontiff added. Russia, before him, had also reacted, referring to a form of “persecution.”
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Ukraine on Sunday accused its neighbor Belarus, a close ally of Russia, of “massage” troops on their border and warned Minsk against possible “unfriendly acts”The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said it had noticed that Belarus “massing a significant number of troops (…) in the Gomel region, near the northern border of Ukraine, under the cover of maneuvers”.
“We warn Belarusian officials not to make a tragic mistake under pressure from Moscow, and we urge its armed forces to stop their unfriendly actions and withdraw forces from the border of Ukraine to a distance greater than the firing range of Belarusian systems.”added Ukrainian diplomacy in a statement.
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kyiv said it had registered the presence of Wagner militia fighters, some of whom are being sheltered by Belarus after their leader’s rebellion failed last year.
Ukraine has warned that military exercises in the border area pose a threat to the “global security” due to its proximity to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. “We emphasize that Ukraine has never undertaken and will never undertake unfriendly actions against the Belarusian people”the Foreign Ministry added.
The statement comes as Ukraine has launched thousands of its troops into the Russian border region of Kursk since August 6, seizing several hundred square kilometers, and as Russia continues its advance in eastern Ukraine.
Belarus, politically and economically dependent on Russia, has been ruled by President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994. In 2022, he allowed Russian troops to be stationed in his country for what both Russia and Belarus have called “exercises” before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February.