At least 12 people have died and more than fifty have been injured during the early morning of this Sunday as a result of a large -scale attack by the Russian armed forces on the Ukrainian capital, kyiv, and other cities in the country, as reported by local and state authorities.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has found the launch of about 350 projectiles against the kyiv region, capital included, and seven other regions of the country, during a new wave of night attacks after which occurred on Saturday, one of the most intense in the conflict. Specifically, the Air Defense Forces of the Ukrainian Army have confirmed the demolition of 45 Russian cruise missiles and the neutralization of 266 of the 298 Russian drones launched against the country.
“Unfortunately, four people have died as a result of an enemy attack in the kyiv region tonight,” said the regional governor, Mikola Kalashnik, in a statement released through his official Telegram channel.
In the same publication, Kalashnik has specified that two people “were discovered while extinguishing a fire in the Obukhiv district” and another person died in the Buchanan area, without having transcended more information about fatal victims at the moment.
Among the injured are a 59 man, who was reached by the shrapnel in the district of Bila Tserkva, suffering various wounds on the face. “All the necessary medical assistance is provided in the place, without the need for hospitalization,” reads the statement.
In the same district of Bila Tserkva, five other people were injured, including the two minors. Two women were injured in the Farstiv district and two more people have left unharmed in the district of Buchanan. Exteriors has confirmed at least 16 injured in the region.
Although no fatalities or injured victims have been registered in other parts of the capital, this does not mean that Russian attacks have reached other areas such as Brovarski and Obukhivski. The authorities estimate for now at least eleven injured in the Ukrainian capital.
“In the place of the emergency, effective emergency service, research equipment and operations and medical equipment have been deployed,” added the governor, who pointed out that the air attacks continue and will provide “more detailed information later.”
For its part, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine has notified the death of a 77 -year -old person in the Mikolaiv region, where at least five injured have also been counted, including a teenager. Among the injured, there are two women in serious condition.
In the Jmelnitski region, four people have died and five others have been injured. Six private homes were destroyed and more than 20 houses, an educational institution and cars have been damaged. Another deceased has been identified in Mikolaiv, where five others have been Herdas.
Shortly after, the Ukraine Emergency Service has reported the death of three minors in Yitomir (8, 12 and 17 years) where another dozen have ended up hospitalized.
As a consequence of the releases on this territory, up to 210 people have had to be evacuated from their homes and several residential buildings have been destroyed.
In parallel, the head of the Khmelnitski Regional State Administration, Sergei Tiurin, has reported-also through Telegram-that the region has been “subject to Russian hostile bombardments, which have caused the destruction of civil infrastructure and have caused dead and injured.”
Specifically, preliminary reports collected by local authorities indicate the death of four people and the hospitalization of five others, one of them in serious condition, which have shrapnel wounds.
As regards material damages, “six private residential buildings have been destroyed and more than 20 houses have been damaged,” according to Tiurin.
Russia demolishes more than 200 drones
The massive aggression of Russia takes place after the Russian defense forces have announced the demolition of 110 Ukrainian non -manned aerial vehicles since this past midnight in different regions of the country, of which seven were heading towards the capital, Moscow, as reported by the Kremlin authorities.
Sixteen drones were neutralized on the Tula region, 14 on the regions of Bryansk and Kaluga, and 13 about the Tver region, the Russian Ministry of Defense has known in a statement.
Ten Ukrainian drones were demolished and intercepted on the regions of Belgorod and Kursk, eight over the Oryol region, seven on Crimea, two about the Smolensk region and one on the Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod and Novgorod regions.
The Ministry of Defense has stressed that, from the afternoon-night until midnight, it knocked another 95 Ukrainian non-manned aircraft.
This exchange of attacks takes place one day after Ukraine reported a total of 13 dead for Russian attacks throughout this Saturday, the day that kyiv suffered one of the “most massive combined attacks against the capital”, in the words of the head of the military administration of the city of kyiv, Timur Tkachenko.
Likewise, this crossing of attacks has taken place after the exchange of 307 prisoners for each of the parties in the second phase of the agreement reached by both parties for the delivery of a total of 2,000 people, after celebrating their first direct contacts in Turkey in more than three years.
Last Friday they already exchanged 390 prisoners-a total of 697 people from both sides who have been able to return to their homes-and this Sunday they have announced that they will proceed to the third exchange.
