In the night from Thursday to Friday, the air raid siren sounds again in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Just after 2 a.m. (local time), authorities also called on residents of the city via Telegram to move to the bomb shelter. Yesterday, Kiev, along with a large number of other cities in Ukraine, was also bombarded by air strikes.
The governor of Kiev, Oleksi Koeleba, says that it is an attack with drones. A witness reports to Reuters news agency that he heard explosions about 20 kilometers south of Kiev.
Many Ukrainian regions are in a “difficult situation” after Russian missiles fell in many places on Thursday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his video message yesterday evening that power cuts are widespread, while temperatures are below freezing. “Tonight (yesterday night, ed.) Most Ukrainian regions are experiencing power outages,” said Zelensky, who said it was particularly difficult in Kiev, Lviv, Odesa and Kherson. The power outages follow, as has been the case much more often in recent months, Russian missile attacks.
One of Zelensky’s advisers said via Facebook earlier in the day that more than 100 missiles were fired on Thursday. Three people were killed in the attacks, according to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry. Six others, including a child, were injured.
Thousands of people missing since war began
Thousands of soldiers and civilians have been reported missing since the start of the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian presidential adviser Alona Verbytska said. “Russia has currently confirmed 3,392 Ukrainian prisoners of war, but 15,000 people are currently considered missing in Ukraine, many of them civilians,” she told the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland news medium.
Nothing is known about the fate of these people, says Verbytska, who as an ombudswoman is committed to the rights of Ukrainian soldiers. “We don’t know what happened to them. Are they also in Russian captivity, were they abducted from Russian-occupied territories or possibly murdered a long time ago?” the ombudswoman wondered. According to Verbytska, the uncertainty is especially terrible for family members.
The Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly pointed out that entire families, including children, are being transferred from the occupied territories to Russia.
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