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Russia Strikes Kyiv In Daylight After Series Of Nighttime Barrages


Explosions rattled Kyiv during daylight Monday as Russian ballistic missiles took aim at the Ukrainian capital, hours after a more common nighttime barrage of the city by drones and cruise missiles.

Russian forces fired 11 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv at about 11:30 a.m. (0830 GMT; 4:30 a.m. EDT), according to Ukraine’s chief of staff, Valerii Zaluzhnyi. All of them were shot down, he said, and puffs of white smoke could be seen in the blue sky over the city from street level.

Debris from the intercepted missiles fell in Kyiv’s central and northern districts during the morning, landing in the middle of traffic on a city road and also starting a fire on a building’s roof, the Kyiv military administration said. At least one civilian was reported hurt.

The blasts unnerved some locals, already under strain after being awakened by the night attack.

“After what happened last night, I react sharply to every siren now. I was terrified, and I’m still trembling,” shared Alina Ksenofontova, a 50-year-old woman who took refuge in the Kyiv subway with her dog Bublik.

The central station, Tetatralna, was crowded with sheltering locals.

Artem Zhyla, a 24-year-old who provides legal services abroad, took his laptop with him and kept working underground.

“I heard two or three explosions, went to the bathroom, and then I heard five or seven more explosions. That’s when I realized something terrible was happening,” he said.

Like many others in the capital, he feels exhausted and stressed. However, he has no intentions of giving up and plans to attend his yoga class to recharge.

“This is certainly not enough to break us,” he said.

Russia used Iskander short-range missiles in the morning attack, the spokesman for Ukraine’s air force said on local television.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and first lady Olena Zelenska both posted a video of what they said were frightened schoolchildren running and screaming down a Kyiv street toward a bomb shelter as sirens wail.

“This is what an ordinary weekday looks like,” the president wrote on Telegram.

The missiles were fired from north of Kyiv, Yurii Ihnat said without clarifying if he meant Russian territory. Kyiv lies around 380 kilometers (236 miles) from the Russian border.

The Russian Defense Ministry said that early Monday it launched a series of strikes targeting Ukrainian air bases with precision long-range air-launched missiles. The strikes destroyed command posts, radars, aircraft and ammunition stockpiles, it claimed. It didn’t say anything about hitting cities or other civilian areas.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba warned against indifference, saying the repeated strikes on civilian areas amounted to “war crimes.”

“Russia’s drone and missile attacks on peaceful Ukrainian cities cannot be seen as usual, no matter how frequent they grow,” he tweeted in English.

During the previous night, Ukraine air defenses brought down more than 40 targets as Russian forces bombarded Kyiv with a combination of drones and cruise missiles in their 15th nighttime attack on the capital so far this month, said Serhii Popko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration.

On Saturday night, Kyiv was subjected to the largest drone attack since the start of Russia’s war. At least one person was killed, local officials said.

Kremlin’s strategy of long-range bombardment has brought many sleepless nights for Ukrainians.

Over the winter, Russian forces aimed their missiles and drones at power plants and other infrastructure. The apparent goal was to weaken Ukraine’s resolve and compel the Ukrainian government to negotiate peace on Moscow’s terms, but Ukrainians swiftly and defiantly repaired the damage.

In recent months, Ukraine has been receiving advanced air defense systems from its Western allies, improving its ability to fend off bombardments by the Kremlin’s forces.

Across the country, the Ukrainian air force said that over Sunday night it shot down 37 out of 40 cruise missiles and 29 out of 35 drones launched by the Kremlin’s forces.

At least three civilians were wounded nationwide in the latest wave of attacks, the Ukrainian presidential office said.

Russian missiles slammed into a military airport In the western Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine, destroying five aircraft and damaging the runway, local Gov. Serhyi Hamaliy said on television.

The strike sparked fires at nearby warehouses storing fuel and military equipment, he added.

Russian shelling and airstrikes also targeted nine localities in the eastern Donetsk region, including the city of Kramatorsk which houses the local Ukrainian army headquarters, local Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Ukrainian TV.

Elsewhere, Russian cruise missiles struck a village in the northeastern Kharkiv region, wounding six people including two minors and a pregnant woman, local officials said.

Also, one person was killed and nine others, including an 11-year-old child, were wounded in strikes on the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, authorities said.

(AP)



9 Responses

  1. Can’t wait for Putin to finally obliterate that Jewish blood soaked Ukraine, and turn it into another Hiroshima.

  2. chugibigi is a vulture full of venom.
    Redirect your aspirations to germany, the true & most heinously despicable cause of all venom & destruction of We Jewish people, including my Beloved Family.

  3. It is very strange that ywn moderation policy is apparently very protective of the honor of mosdos, but allows totally atrocious posts towards the rest of the Hashems children. This is not an only occasion. Maybe this is just an occasional slip, or there are 100s of such messages and only 1% gets through. But if this is a policy, I would appreciate an explanation and maybe a name of the gadol who approved such policy to know who to approach with the concerns. Thank you.

  4. When the corona viruse was in China everybody said that it’s not coming to us but then it did when this war happening in Russia we say it’s not coming to us but that what it is about

  5. Chugibugi, Putin is not crazy, he will go for continental US before Kyiv or anywhere in Ukraine for simple reason Ukraine is too close to him to use nukes, but US is far enough! Also, these are thousands of Jews in Ukraine right now!

  6. 147: imagine if the germans in 2023 named cities after Hitler, and put his picture on their currency. which is what ukrainians do with Khmelnitzkiy. Look up also Petlura, Bandera, and the relationship of modern Ukrainians to these people.

    Do the Germans have anything resembling the Azov Brigade?

  7. Glory to Ukraine.
    Ukraine past history doesn’t matter .
    What ever is printed on Ukrainian money doesn’t matter.
    Ukraine presently has a Jewish president
    And the unprovoked Russian imperialist attack on Ukraine is endangering Russian and Ukraine Jews.
    This is the only issue that concerns the Jewish people in this war.
    why don’t the Jewish people realize this ?

  8. kitov, go to the mass graves of the hundreds of thousands of your brothers and sisters slaughtered by the Ukrainians, and ask forgiveness for saying that their deaths don’t matter.
    Jewish Lives Matter.

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