The Russian military has once again fired rockets at Kiev and other parts of Ukraine. There is said to be one fatality in the Kharkiv region. During the night, Ukraine attacked Crimea, which was annexed by Russia.
Kiev was once again the target of Russian missile attacks last night. Early on Sunday morning, the military administration in the Ukrainian capital announced that Russia had launched the third massive missile attack on Ukraine in the past four days. According to preliminary information, there were no injuries.
The military spoke of around a dozen rockets that were repelled by the Ukrainian Air Force. There was an air alarm in Kiev for more than two hours. “The enemy is continuing its massive rocket terror against Ukraine,” Kiev’s military administration chief Serhiy Popko said on Telegram: “He is not giving up his goal of destroying Kiev at any price.”
Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko also called on the population to seek safety in shelters when the renewed attacks began. According to him, parts of the rockets fired fell into a forest area. The Russian army recently attacked Kiev with rockets on Thursday. As a result of these attacks, 13 people were injured.
One fatality in Kharkiv
In addition to Kiev, the Ukrainian regions of Kharkiv and Lviv also reported further Russian attacks. According to media reports, several rockets hit Kharkiv on Saturday. At least one person is said to have died.
The governor of the Lviv region, Maksym Kosytskyi, reported rocket attacks on the district around the city of Stryi, south of Lviv. According to Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy, about 20 missiles and seven Iranian-made Shahed drones were fired into the region. The attacks again targeted critical infrastructure facilities.
The operational command of the Polish Armed Forces also confirmed that there had been “”intensive activity by long-range aircraft from the Russian Federation” during the night. As Poland’s army announced on the short message service X, a cruise missile fired by Russia also penetrated Polish airspace. It was repelled However, the projectile was not tracked by military radar systems throughout its entire flight, the Reuters news agency quoted the military information as saying.
Conflict parties as a source
In the current situation, information on the course of the war, shelling and casualties provided by official bodies of the Russian and Ukrainian parties to the conflict cannot be directly verified by an independent body.
Ukraine attacks annexed Crimean peninsula
The Ukrainian military, for its part, fired missiles at night on the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which has been annexed by Russia since 2014. According to Russian authorities, the destination was the port of Sevastopol, where part of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is stationed. Russia also supplies its own troops with supplies of soldiers, weapons and ammunition via Crimea.
The Russian-appointed city chief of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvoshayev, spoke on Telegram of a “large-scale attack”. A 65-year-old was fatally injured by rocket fragments. The “most massive attack in recent times” was successfully repelled. However, traffic across the Crimean Bridge was temporarily suspended on both Saturday evening and Sunday morning.
Ukraine has not yet commented on the recent attacks on Crimea. The media reported that the main communications center of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was hit by three cruise missiles. Reports of serious explosions in the port of Sevastopol and possible hits on a ship lying there were circulating on the Internet.