Natalia, 72, was awakened at 6 a.m. in kyiv on Sunday by a series of powerful explosions, the first since the end of April in the Ukrainian capital, which was resuming a semblance of normal life in the midst of war with Russia. One of the targets, a railway infrastructure, located in this district in the south-east of kyiv, 10 km from the city center, is prohibited from access.
“I heard about six explosions at 5:57 in the morning,” Natalia told AFP. Former employee of the bombed site, she refuses to give her surname like the other witnesses interviewed by AFP on the spot because it is forbidden to divulge information on the sites affected ten hours after the explosion.
According to initial information, the explosions did not cause any deaths. One injured person was hospitalized, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced on Telegram. A 10-storey pink building had all its windows smashed. Not far away, a woman cleans broken glass in the street in front of a cultural center whose windows were also blown by the explosions.