A wave of explosions has gone over all of Ukraine since the morning on 10 October – all the way from Lviv in the country’s west to Kharkiv in the east, from Kyiv in the north to Odessa in the south, BBC reports.
Explosions in Kyiv are much closer to the city centre when compared to the attacks suffered at the beginning of the war. Sirens have been active across Kyiv for the last several hours.
According to the video published on social networks, one of the missiles fired by Russian forces may have struck the newly-constructed cycling and pedestrian bridge in Kyiv, which was opened in 2019 and known locally as Klitchko Bridge.
Footage from cameras installed on the bridge shows the moment of impact. Currently it is unknown if anyone was killed of injured. The bridge held and still stands.
The Bridge of Glass in the very heart of Kyiv pic.twitter.com/CvsRfTEAoJ
— Illia Ponomarenko ?? (@IAPonomarenko) October 10, 2022
This tourist is a popular tourist attraction. The floor of the bridge is made of glass panels. There is an active highway below it. This bridge is 212 m long and 32 m tall.
According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Russian missile attacks target infrastructure across the country. In his video posted on Telegram he reported that energy infrastructure in Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, Vinnitsia, Zaporozhzhia, Kharkiv and other regions was attacked.
«They want to sow panic and chaos, they want to destroy our energy system. They are hopeless,» he said, adding that the other target is the people. He urged residents to stay in bomb shelters.
Zelenskyy also reported on his Twitter page that after Russian missile attacks on Ukraine he spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who agreed to hold an extraordinary meeting of G7, which Zelenskyy plans to attend.
Agreed with Chancellor @OlafScholz of ?? holding presidency of #G7 on an urgent meeting of the Group. My speech is scheduled, in which I’ll tell about the terrorist attacks by RF. We also discussed the issue of increasing pressure on RF & aid in restoring damaged infrastructure.
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) October 10, 2022
According to representative of Ukrainian Air Forces Yuriy Ihnat, Russia fired at least 83 missiles for its most recent attack. More than 43 of those missiles were shot down, according to Ukrainian authorities. He also said that among those missiles were Kalibr, Iskander and H-101 fired from the Caspian Sea and Black Sea.
Ukrainian embassy in Latvia reports that with this massive missile attack on Kyiv, Lviv, Zhitomir, Mikolaiv and other Ukrainian cities, murder of civilians and destruction of civil infrastructure,
Russia proved it is a terrorist state, and Putin – an international criminal.
Russia’s international isolation, Russian economic destruction, as well as supplies of all kinds of arms to Ukraine are the necessary steps that will help put a stop to terrorist state Russia and prevent the killings of civilians.
Putin’s regime is a threat to not only Ukraine, but the whole world as well. Only together can we win this absolute evil, Ukrainian embassy in Latvia announced.
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