Almost 40 people were injured and one killed in massive airstrikes on several regions in Ukraine. Children are among the injured. Missiles fired at Kiev were all intercepted.
Russia fired rockets at several cities in Ukraine last night. According to the authorities, at least 34 people were injured in the Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad. Five children were among the injured, said the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Serhiy Lyssak. Two women are in intensive care.
According to Lyssak, some of the seven Russian missiles were intercepted, while others struck an industrial plant and caused a fire. Dozens of buildings were damaged in a residential area.
Rockets also fell in three other areas of the region, according to Lyssak, damaging houses and a school.
Dark green: Russian army advancing. Hatched: areas annexed by Russia.
Also attacks on Kyiv and Kherson
Rockets were also fired at the capital Kiev. At around 3:45 a.m. the first air raid sirens wailed there. All missiles and some drones were intercepted, said the head of the city administration, Serhiy Popko.
One person was killed and three others injured, including a child, in the Kherson region. The Russian armed forces had “fired 39 times over the past day,” and the city of Cherson in the south of the country had been hit eight times, said Oleksandr Prokudin of the Kherson military administration.
18 cruise missile
A total of 18 cruise missiles were also fired by long-range strategic bombers from the Murmansk region and the Caspian Sea region of Russia, according to Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander Valeriy Zalushny. 15 were intercepted.
On Friday, the Russian military attacked Ukraine with more than 20 cruise missiles and two drones. It was the first attack on Kiev in almost two months. Among other things, the rockets hit a residential building in Uman, a city a good 200 kilometers south of Kiev. 21 people lost their lives.