New attacks on the Ukrainian capital. Several explosions were heard this Monday morning in kyiv and caused the death of at least three people, according to a latest report. Three explosions sounded successively around 6:35 a.m., 6:45 a.m. and 6:58 a.m. local time, two more later in the morning. Air-raid sirens had sounded shortly before the first explosion. According to the chief of staff of the Ukrainian presidency, it would be “kamikaze drones”.
According to the latest report communicated on Telegram by Kyrylo Timoshenko, deputy head of the Cabinet of the President of Ukraine, three people were found dead and 19 people were rescued from the rubble of a building. “Three victims were hospitalized,” said the mayor of the city, Vitali Klitschko.
“As a result of the drone attack, a fire broke out in a non-residential building in the Shevchenko district. Firefighters work. Several residential buildings were damaged. The doctors are on site, ”he detailed, before posting a photo of one of the kamikaze drones which allegedly attacked the city.
“The enemy is terrorizing the civilian population (…) He can attack our cities, but he cannot break us. The occupiers will only get just punishment and condemnation by future generations. And we will win,” reacted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The presidential chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, insisted on the urgent need for reinforcements in armament following these attacks: “We need more air defense systems and as soon as possible. We don’t have time for slow actions. »
Recent attacks on kyiv
These explosions come in a context of new air offensives on the Ukrainian capital. Russian bombardments on a scale not seen in months hit kyiv and other cities in Ukraine last Monday. They had caused the death of at least 19 people and injured 105, which sparked an international outcry.
Russia, which has suffered many military setbacks recently, continued its firing on Tuesday, on a smaller scale, hitting energy installations in western Ukraine very far from the front. The shootings had been carried out in retaliation for the explosion which partly destroyed the Russian bridge of Crimea, of great strategic importance.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was satisfied with these massive strikes on Friday, and had judged that new large-scale bombardments on the cities of Ukraine were not necessary “for the moment”.