A number of explosions rocked the Ukrainian capital kyiv early Monday, forcing residents to take refuge in bomb shelters. | Picture credit score: AFP
Russia has launched a barrage of drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles at kyiv, Ukraine’s air pressure mentioned early Monday (2 September 2024).
A number of collection of explosions rocked the Ukrainian capital within the early hours of Monday, forcing residents to take refuge in bomb shelters.
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Kiev Mayor Vitalii Klitschko mentioned that emergency providers had been referred to as to the Holosiivskyi and Solomianskyi districts of kyiv. One individual was reportedly injured by falling particles within the Shevchenkivskyi district, Klitschko mentioned.
“There can be a solution to every part. The enemy will discover it,” Presidential Workplace chief Andrii Yermak wrote on his Telegram web page after the assault.
In keeping with the Air Power, Russia fired a number of teams of cruise missiles, accompanied by launches of ballistic missiles and a few drones, at kyiv.
Serhii Popko, head of the army administration of town of kyiv, mentioned greater than 10 cruise missiles, round 10 ballistic missiles and a drone fired on the Ukrainian capital and its suburbs had been destroyed by Ukrainian air defenses.
In keeping with Ukrainian media, an explosion additionally occurred in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis. Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv area, confirmed that an assault had taken place early within the morning in Kharkiv’s Industrialnyi district and had set a residential constructing and several other others on fireplace.
The assault comes a day after the Russian army mentioned it had intercepted and destroyed 158 Ukrainian drones attacking a number of Russian areas in one of many largest Ukrainian assaults of the roughly two-and-a-half-year warfare.
This additionally comes weeks after an incursion by Ukrainian forces into Russia’s Kursk area, which Moscow’s forces have struggled to repel thus far and to which the Kremlin has vowed to reply.
