Status: 10/10/2022 9:29 am
According to Mayor Klitschko, Kyiv has been attacked with Russian rockets. Explosions were also reported from other Ukrainian cities. According to President Zelenskyy, there were dead and injured.
According to Mayor Vitaly Klitschko, the Ukrainian capital Kyiv is under Russian rocket fire. Targets were hit in the center of Kyiv, Klitschko said on Telegram. He urged people to seek shelter.
Several explosions occurred in the center, Klitschko said. The Shevchenskiwskii district was affected. He will give details later.
According to the state rescue service, several people were injured and killed, as reported by the Ukrainian broadcaster Suspilne. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed this, but did not give any figures. He told Telegram that Russia was trying to annihilate Ukraine.
conflicting parties as a source
Information on the course of the war, shelling and casualties provided by official bodies of the Russian and Ukrainian conflict parties cannot be directly checked by an independent body in the current situation.
Explosions also in other cities
Explosions were also reported from western and central Ukraine, as well as in the east. “A massive rocket attack on the area, there are dead and wounded,” said the military governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region around the industrial city of Dnipro, Valentin Resnichenko, on his Telegram channel. Resnichenko called on the residents of the area to stay in the bomb shelters.
According to reports, not only the regional capital of Dnipro was hit, but also the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets, which are across the Dnipro River from the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. In the city of Zaporizhia there was also an air alert after the night rocket attacks.
Vassili Golod, WDR currently Kyiv, with current information on the explosions in Kyiv
Morning magazine, 10/10/2022
Officials said four people died in a rocket attack in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavjansk in the Donetsk region. The impact happened in the city center, said Mayor Wadym Lyach.
Heavy explosions could be heard in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Mayor Andriy Sadovy said. The power went out in several parts of the city. “Explosions can be heard in the Khmelnytskyi region. The anti-aircraft defense is deployed,” said the local governor, Serhiy Hamalij. He did not provide any information about possible victims. The media also report explosions in Zhytomyr. Both regions are west of Kyiv.
Response to Crimean Bridge?
The rocket attacks are seen as Moscow’s response to the explosion on the Crimean bridge, which is strategically important for Russia. The deputy chief of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, had threatened Ukraine with retaliation. Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin spoke of a “terrorist attack” on the bridge and blamed the Ukrainian secret service SBU. However, the SBU had not confirmed an involvement.
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war in Ukraine