Kyiv:
At least two people died and 54 were injured after a missile attack against kyiv on an early Thursday, said the mayor of the city.
The Ukrainian authorities issued an alert for a missile attack, and AFP journalists heard explosions throughout the capital.
“Kyiv is being attacked by enemy missiles,” said the city’s military authorities in Telegram.
Hours later, the mayor of the city, Vitali Klitschko, said: “Two people died in the capital.”
“54 people were injured. 38 of them, including 6 children, were hospitalized,” he said in a telegram post.
In a bomb shelter established in a basement of a residential building, more than a dozen residents gathered after the air alert began, an AFP journalist witnessed.
Kyiv was last hit by missiles in early April, when at least three people were injured.
It has been the objective of sporadic attacks since Russia launched its large -scale invasion in February 2022.
In East Ukraine, the city of Kharkiv was beaten by seven missiles, said the mayor of the city, Igor Terekhov, and added later that “a massive drone attack” in the city was ongoing.
“Stay safe!” Terekhov said.
Andriy Yermak, a main assistant of the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, said Russia was attacking kyiv, Kharkiv and other cities “with missiles and drones at this time.”
“Putin shows only a desire to kill,” he said. “Attacks against civilians must stop.”
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and was automatically generated from a union feed).
