The Ukrainian military said several regions in Ukraine were affected. There is an air alert throughout the country. Residential buildings and industrial facilities were hit, the authorities said, and there were injuries. “Kiev – take cover!” wrote the Air Force on the Telegram short message service.
The capital is exposed to a threat from ballistic missiles. The cities of Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Khmelnytskyi were also being massively attacked with rockets by the Russian armed forces, the military in the respective cities said.
“The enemy brutally attacks peaceful cities”
“The enemy is brutally attacking peaceful cities,” wrote Olexandr Wilkul, the mayor of Kryvyi Rih, on Telegram. The full extent of possible damage will only be known once the Russian attack on the southern city is over.
The city council there said there were several people injured in a rocket attack in Zaporizhzhia. According to the governor of the region of the same name, Yuri Malashko, several rockets hit Zaporizhia and five explosions were heard. “Rockets hit residential areas,” he wrote on Telegram. At least two people were injured. Massive rocket attacks were also reported in other cities, including Dnipropetrovsk and Khmelnytskyi.
In the city of Novomoskovsk in the Dnipropetrovsk region, 24 people, including 5 children, were injured, Suspilne public radio reported.
Kharkiv is once once more in the spotlight
According to Mayor Ihor Terekhov, at least one woman was injured in Kharkiv. An industrial plant was attacked and a fire broke out, he said on Telegram. The Russian armed forces had already targeted Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city in the east, on Sunday. In the small town of Zmiiv in the Kharkiv region, several people had to be rescued from the rubble of a house.
The governor of the region of the same name, Oleh Syniehubow, said on Telegram on Sunday that Russian S-300 missiles had hit the city of Kharkiv twice. There were also attacks in nearby Vovchansk. The two towns are close to the border with the Russian Belgorod region.
Russian forces launched a major combined attack in the early hours of the morning for the third time in just a few days. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and drones were used.
