“At night, the enemy fired on Kiev. Two attacks in the Shevschenkovsky district,” Klitschko explained. Three injured were taken to hospital. “Emergency services and emergency services are working on site.”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter about a “hateful act of barbarism”. Thus, Kiev was targeted with cruise missiles. “Russia has once again shown its attitude towards Ukraine, Europe and the world,” Kuleba wrote.
After the bombing, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhail Podoliak called for Russia to be stripped of its seat on the UN Security Council. “Rockets hit the center of Kiev during Antonio Guterres’ official visit,” he wrote on Twitter. “Yesterday he was still sitting at a long table in the Kremlin and today there were explosions above his head,” he added, referring to the UN secretary-general.
According to Ukrainian sources, more than two months after the start of the war, Russia is stepping up its attacks in the east and south of the country. The Russian military is stepping up its offensive operations, the Ukrainian military command said on Thursday about the situation on the main front in the east. There was intense bombardment from almost every direction.
According to the Russian military, it once again launched heavy air strikes against Ukraine. “The Russian armed forces’ tactical air force bombed 76 military targets,” Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Thursday. Two ammunition depots and a number of concentrations of troops and military convoys were hit. Konashenkov put enemy losses at over 320 soldiers.
Another 38 military objects were attacked by rockets. Among other things, six ammunition depots were destroyed as a result, but several Ukrainian Totschka-U missiles were also shot down. These reports could not be independently verified.
According to officials, the cities of Odessa and Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine, were bombed by Russian troops. “Mykolaiv was hit again by fire from Smerch multiple rocket launchers,” the military command of Ukraine’s southern military district said on its Facebook page on Thursday. Dozens of private homes, cars and businesses were damaged by the bombing.
Explosions were also reported in the city of Odessa on Thursday night. However, the head of the local military administration, Serhiy Brachuk, assured that the air defense had the situation under control. Nothing was initially known about the damage.
Two eyewitnesses told Reuters about two powerful explosions in the Russian city of Belgorod, near the Ukrainian border. In recent days, Russia has reported a series of attacks by Ukrainian troops on Russian territory near the border and warned that there was a risk of a significant escalation. While Ukraine has not explicitly claimed responsibility for these attacks, it has described them as revenge and karma.