On Thursday, Russia fired 31 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv in the first attack on the Ukrainian capital in 44 days. All the incoming missiles were shot down by air defenses, though 13 people including a child were injured by falling wreckage.
Serhii Popko, head of the Kyiv City Administration said, ‘Residents of Kyiv were woken up by loud explosions around 5 a.m. as the missiles arrived at roughly the same time from different directions, said Serhii Popko, head of the Kyiv City Administration’.
Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched two ballistic missiles and 29 cruise missiles against the capital. Kyiv has better air defenses than most regions of the large country. The missile interception rate is high, rendering Russian attacks on the capital significantly less successful than during the early days of the war.
Ukrainian officials warn that they need more western weapons if they are to prevail against Russia’s invasion.
The city administration said, ‘An 11-year-old girl and a 38-year-old man were hospitalized in Kyiv’. ‘Eight other people sustained light injuries’, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
‘Around 80 people were evacuated from their homes’, according to Ukraine’s Emergency Service.
Falling remaining from the missiles set fire to at least one apartment building, burned parked cars and left craters in streets and a small park. Some streets were messed up with debris, consisting glass from broken windows.
Survivors were in tears and shaken as emergency workers treated them in the street, recounted narrow escapes.
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