Archive photo: People stand in front of the rubble of the damaged building after a shopping center in Kyiv was shelled Photo: EL mbu
From BZ editors
There were several explosions in Kyiv on Sunday morning. Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram that the Shevchenko district was the destination: “Ambulances and paramedics are on site. Rescue and evacuation of residents is underway in two buildings.”
Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, wrote that eyewitnesses reported seeing rockets. AFP journalists on the ground reported four detonations near the city center.
Accordingly, a residential complex was hit and a fire broke out. Half an hour earlier, the city’s air raid sirens had sounded the alarm. Information on possible victims was initially not available.
The Ukrainian capital has rarely been the target of Russian attacks in recent weeks, and the Russian military is currently concentrating primarily on the east of the country. Kyiv was last shelled in early June.
While the Ukrainian side spoke of damaged railway infrastructure at the time, Moscow reported the targeted destruction of tanks freshly delivered from abroad.
Already on Saturday there had been a rocket attack on the western Ukrainian city of Sarny, in which at least three people were killed, according to the authorities.
