By – Prakarsh Kastwar
Russia launched an air strike on Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine, injuring at least 18 people and damaging infrastructure.
Russia launched a huge air attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other locations on Thursday, hurting at least 18 people and damaging infrastructure across the country, according to officials.
Blasts were heard in Kyiv and the surrounding area following an air raid alert, according to Reuters witnesses. Authorities reported dispatching rescue crews to various places throughout the capital.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said persons were injured in Kyiv and Cherkasy areas, as well as in the eastern city of Kharkiv, during the early-morning attack.
“It’s a tense morning. Explosions were heard across Ukraine,” he stated on the Telegram messaging service.
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said seven people were hurt, including a nine-year-old child. Missile debris fell in the city center, causing damage to an infrastructure facility and many non-residential structures, he said.
According to Klymenko, a hotel and several shopping kiosks were damaged in Cherkasy, Ukraine, and seven people were hurt.
The emergency services shared a video on Telegram of rescuers carrying an injured guy on a stretcher while a fire burns.
Blasts were reported in Cherkasy, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskiy, Rivne, Vinnytsia, Lviv, and Ivano-Frankivsk regions, according to the interior ministry and regional officials.
Lviv regional governor Maksym Kozytskyi said three Russian missiles struck the western city of Drohobych, approximately 60 kilometers from the Polish border.
According to Kozytskiy, an infrastructure complex and warehouses were targeted.
In a separate nocturnal strike, Russian shelling of a dormitory in the southern city of Kherson killed two people, according to governor Oleksandr Prokudin.