Russia has carried out particularly powerful airstrikes on Kyiv using drones, cruise missiles, and possibly ballistic missiles, writes Reuters.
City officials stated that the intense strikes on the morning of the 16th of May were already the eighth attack on the capital of Ukraine in May. Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv military administration, wrote in Telegram that the attack was characterized by intensity – a lot of missiles in a concise period of time. According to initial information, most of the enemy’s missiles and drones have been intercepted.
Russia resumed shelling Ukrainian cities at the end of April, after a break of several weeks.
The mayor of Kyiv, Vitaly Klitschko, informed that the
falling debris set fire to several cars and damaged a building in the Solomyansk district in the western part of Kyiv.
Three people were injured.
A drone attack on Boryspil, located southeast of Kyiv, was also repelled. Boryspil is the main passenger airport of Kyiv, and it’s currently closed.
In the early morning of the 16th of May, air raid sirens sounded almost all over the territory of Ukraine, and in the vicinity of Kyiv, they did not stop for more than three hours.
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