Several explosions were reported astir Kyiv connected Monday morning, a week aft Russia past attacked the Ukrainian capital.
Andriy Yermak, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s main of staff, said connected Telegram that the metropolis was attacked by kamikaze drones. Multiple radical successful Kyiv said connected societal media that they heard noises that are diagnostic of the unmanned devices earlier the explosions.
In a Telegram post, Zelenskyy said: “The force tin onslaught our cities, but it won’t beryllium capable to interruption us. The occupiers volition get lone just punishment and condemnation of aboriginal generations. And we volition get victory.”
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said buildings successful the cardinal Shevchenkivskyi territory had been acceptable alight by the explosions. He posted a picture connected Telegram of what helium said was the wreckage of a drone, which looks similar 1 of the Iranian-made Shaheds reportedly acquired by Russia. EU overseas ministers are connected Monday set to discuss imaginable sanctions against Iran implicit the transportation of drones to Russia.
Russia besides appears to person targeted “critical infrastructure facilities” successful Romny, adjacent the northeastern metropolis of Sumy, according to Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, the determination governor. “There are victims,” helium said connected Telegram.
Russia antecedently deed Kyiv and different Ukrainian cities past week with strikes, successful what were seen arsenic revenge attacks aft Ukraine’s palmy counteroffensive and a fiery blast connected the Kerch Bridge linking Russian-occupied Crimea with mainland Russia.
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