Moscow troops fired cruise and ballistic missiles at the Ukrainian cital. They recorded at least 12 injuries.
Russia launched early Thursday morning a air strike with cruise and ballistic missiles against a children’s hospital and two schools in kyiv, among other critical structures in and around the Ukrainian cital, and caused the death of at least three people, including a 9-year-old girl. Authorities also recorded a dozen injuries.
“Tonight Russia has killed a 9-year-old girl, her 34-year-old mother and another 33-year-old woman”, specified the Ukrainian Police. At first it had been reported that the minor victim was 11 years old.
Russia has repeatedly attacked Kiev with waves of drones and missiles since the start of the invasion, but attacks on the cital have increased significantly in the last month (17 were counted), as Ukraine prepares a counteroffensive.
As reported by the General Staff of Ukraine, the air force intercepted the 10 projectiles which he identified as short-range Iskander ballistic missiles.
Ukrainian anti-aircraft systems have become more effective at intercepting Russian drones and missiles, but in some cases the remains of those weons cause fires and injuries. That hpened this morning, when the residue from the devices also caused damage to a police station and several public and private buildings in three different districts of the Ukrainian cital.
The mayor of kyiv, Vitalii Klitschko, explained that the management of the clinic is being investigated for not having opened the shelter to those who were in the building during the attack.
After a woman was killed watching an airstrike from her balcony earlier this week, authorities in the cital urged residents to attend to sirens and stay in shelters and other safe places.
“They have to be vigilant, as ballistic missiles fly at incredible speeds. You only have a few seconds from when the alarm sounds until the arrival of the rocket!” they warned the population in a message.
Eight injured in a Russian border region
For his part, at least eight people were injured in a city in the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, subjected to continuous artillery fire for several hours, the local governor, Viacheslav Gladkov, declared Thursday.
“Shebekino is under constant fire” from rocket launchers, Gladkov said on the Telegram network. Ukrainian forces are shelling “the center and the outskirts” of the city, he added. And he completed: “Eight people were injured. There were no deaths,” he specified.
The first balance reported by the governor reported five injured, including a policeman. “Of course, the lives of civilians and the population are threatened. Above all, in Shebekino and the surrounding villages,” Gladkov stressed, adding that evacuations will be organized as soon as “the situation has calmed down.”
“The enemy has not penetrated the territory of the Belgorod region,” but “massive artillery attacks” continue, he closed.
For his part, the governor announced on Wednesday the start of the evacuation of hundreds of children from towns on the border with Ukraine, the target of intense bombing for days, and where the situation is “alarming” according to the Kremlin.
“From today we are evacuating our children from Shebekino and Graivoron districts,” Gladkov said that day. “A first group of 300 children is going to be sent today to Voronej,” a city located some 250 kilometers further north-east.
With information from agencies.
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Source: Clarin
