At least one person has died and four others have been injured. of different consideration as a result of a massive attack perpetrated by Russians on the Ukrainian capital, kyiv, during the early hours of this Saturday, as reported by local authorities.
“So far we are aware of one death and four injured. Three of the injured were hospitalized by doctors. On the left bank of the capital there are interruptions in the supply of heat and water“, reported Vitali Klitschko, in a message broadcast through Telegram.
The first explosions were recorded around 1:20 a.m. (local time) and they continued for approximately an hour, according to correspondents from the Ukrainian newspaper ‘Kyiv Independent’, who also reported the detection of a ballistic missile.
In parallel, he denounced that the capital was being attacked with Russian drones, urging the population to remain in their homes and shelters, while Klitschko himself announced the first impacts on non-residential buildings in the Desnianski and Holosiivski neighborhoods. “kyiv is under massive enemy attack”the mayor warned shortly after midnight from Friday to Saturday.
Among the affected infrastructure are an office building and several garages.which began to burn as a result of the impacts. As a result of falling debris, a fuel tanker that was parked in a parking lot also caught fire.
Thus, Klitschko issued a first request for medical assistance for the Darnitski district and reported the first two injured people reported in Dniprovski, both of whom were hospitalized in serious condition.
Successive impacts have also affected private, as well as other residential buildings in a secondary way, recausing exclusively damage to doors and windows due to falling debris.
A part of the Ukrainian capital has been left without running water or heating as a result of the Russian attack, according to local authorities.
ATTACK AGAINST KHARKOW
On the other hand, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine has reported at least 19 more injuries as a result of a drone attack in Kharkiv.in the east of the country, which has also left “destruction and fires throughout the city”, according to the mayor, Igor Terejov.
According to the mayor, he has mainly used drones with explosive charges to attack the city with 25 of these devices for two and a half hours.
In total, and as the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has subsequently compiled, Russia launched more than 370 drones tonight attack and 21 missiles of various types against kyiv and the region, as well as the Sumy, Kharkiv and Chernigov regions.
“We must guarantee the full implementation of everything agreed with (US) President Donald Trump in Davos on air defense issues. I thank everyone who helps protect lives,” he said.
These attacks take place on the same day that the new round of negotiations between the delegations began in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi.i, to discuss Washington’s plan to end the war.
All this, after Vitali Klitschko warned this Friday that the situation in the Ukrainian capital due to the latest waves of Russian bombings is “extremely difficult,” especially due to power and heating outages, has predicted that it will get worse if the attacks continue and, finally, he has repeated his strong recommendation that people leave the city if they are in a position to do so.
The mayor estimates that, this month alone, more than 600,000 people have left the city –a number extracted from the mobile phone bills of city residents, as explained at the time to the ‘Kyiv Independent’– although the regional administration has not wanted to confirm these figures.
