According to Ukrainian government and media sources, Russia has fired missiles at Ukrainian cities including the capital Kiev, the Black Sea port of Odesa and the northeastern city of Kharkiv.
Ukraine’s commander in chief Valery Zaluzhny said in a statement that 81 missiles had been fired by Russia, 34 of which were shot down.
Rocket hits sent air raid sirens blaring over Ukraine early Thursday morning. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported explosions in the Holosiivskyi district in the southern part of the city.
One hour later Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote another tweet saying ” Another explosion has occurred in Kyiv. This time, in Svyatoshynskyy District. All emergency services are headed to the site. Cars are on fire in the courtyard of a residential building. Two persons are injured”.
According to Governor Oleh Sinehubov, fifteen shells hit the city of Kharkiv and its environs in eastern Ukraine, hitting residential buildings. He promised to provide more information on the extent of the damage and possible casualties in Ukraine’s second-largest city. “Critical infrastructure is again in the sight of the occupiers,” he wrote in a Telegram message.
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram that there were undefined In the Odesa region, Governor Maksym Marchenko reported by telegram that a massive rocket attack had destroyed the port city’s electrical installations. Anti-aircraft troops intercepted several shells and told residents to stay in their shelters as further attacks were possible. “Fortunately there were no injuries. “There are power restrictions,” the governor noted.
Ukrainian railways reported power outages in several regions. Five trains were over an hour late and ten were over thirty minutes late.
According to DTEK, preventive power outages were introduced in Kyiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, and Odesa. According to Klitschko, 15 percent of the city’s electricity consumers were without power due to emergency power outages.
Other explosions were reported in the cities of Chernihiv, Dnieper, Lutsk, and Rivne, and in the western Lviv region.
In addition to Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil, explosions were recorded in the western regions of Ivano-Frankivsk and Ivano-Frankivsk.
Initially, weekly barrages against the country’s energy infrastructure plunged entire cities into darkness. Over time, however, the bombings have become less frequent, suggesting Russia may be stockpiling ammunition. The last bombing took place on February 16th.
Russia fired 6 x Kinzhal hypersonic cruise missiles last night against Ukraine.
“This was a major attack and for the first time with so many different types of missiles,” the Reuters news agency quoted a Ukrainian air force spokesperson as saying. “It was like never before.”
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