Russian forces launched yet another mass missile attack against Ukraine on Tuesday morning with explosions reported in cities across the country, including Kyiv.
Ihor Klymenko, Minister of Internal Affairs, said five people had been killed and more than 40 injured in total.
In the capital, Kyiv Post reporters were woken by an air raid alert shortly before 6am, then a series of at least ten explosions in quick succession at around 7:20am.
According to preliminary reports from Mayor Vitali Klitschko, a “non-residential building” was on fire in the Pechershk district and a fire broke out in “several apartments” in the Solomyan district.
Several cars were also ablaze next to a kindergarten in the Svyatoshynskyi district.
Klitcshko also said an unexploded warhead had been found in an apartment and an evacuatio of the building was underway.
It is not currently known if any of the damage was caused by direct missile hits or debris from the work of air defenses.
Currently one person was killed and nine people are known to have been wounded in Kyiv, eight of them have been hospitalized.
Ukraine’s army chief Valery Zaluzhny said on social media that Russian forces had fired 41 missiles, including cruise and ballistic missiles, and that his forces had downed 21.
Kharkiv also came under attack. Early reports indicate several residential buildings were damaged and a gas pipeline is on fire. Preliminary reports said two people have been killed and 28 injured.
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The Ust-Luga oil terminal in the Leningrad region holds strategic importance for Moscow. Sources told Kyiv Post the attack is a “significant setback” for Russian forces.
“As a result of the morning shelling, we have a complete destruction of a section of an apartment building. Now the rescuers are trying to dismantle the rubble in order to find people under it,” Kharkiv’s mayor said.
Early reports said two people had been killed in Pavlograd, in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
The all clear was given in Kyiv around 8:15am.
