Ukraine, Moscow hammers the cities. 5 civilians killed

2024-02-07 11:06:14

Time.news – A firestorm has hit Ukraine, where at least five people have been killed in a new massive Russian air attack. Four victims were in a residential building of the capital hit in the offensive for which 44 missiles and 20 drones were used. The bombing was carried out during a visit by the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell who had to seek shelter in an air raid shelter.

“Yet another massive attack on our state. Six regions have been targeted by the enemy,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram. Several waves of missiles and drones have hit the country, killing at least four people in Kiev and another in Mykolaiv and damaging residential buildings. In the capital, the alert went off just before 6am local time and lasted three hours. In total, Russia launched 44 missiles and 20 explosive drones against Ukraine, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army Valery Zaluzhny said on Telegram: 36 cruise missiles of various types, three ballistic missiles and 5 S-300 missiles . Of these, Ukrainian forces intercepted 29 missiles and 15 drones, the same source added.

In Kiev, debris from a downed missile fell on a 17-story residential building in the Golosiivsky neighborhood (south), causing a large fire and killing four people and injuring at least 32 others, according to City Hall. On the eastern bank of the Dnieper River, high-voltage lines were damaged, leaving 19,000 families in the Dniprovsky and Desniansky districts without electricity, the Energy Ministry said in a statement.

In Mykolaiv a man died from serious injuries after the attack which destroyed the roofs of around 20 houses and damaged gas and water pipes, Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych said. Kharkiv, the second city ​​of the country located in the east, was hit by S-300 missiles, hsaid regional governor Oleg Synegoubov. A woman was slightly injured and infrastructure was damaged, he said. In the Lviv region, a missile hit an industrial site in the city of Drogobych, about fifty kilometers from the Polish border, without causing casualties, regional governor Maksym Kozytsky said on Telegram.