“Our armed forces have cleared half of the Sheverodonetsk of Russian troops there,” said the governor of Lugansk region.
Ukraine today assured that its forces control “half” Sheverontonetska key city in its eastern regions and currently the epicenter of heavy fighting in the vast Donbass district.
“Our armed forces cleaned half of Sheverodonetsk “The Russian troops were there,” Lugansk District Governor Sergei Gaidai was quoted as saying in a social media interview. “Half the city is under the control of our defenders,” he added.
In the meantime, the Russia hit Kyiv today with cruise missiles launched from the Caspian Sea. In this first attack on the Ukrainian capital in weeks, a railway repair facility was hit, the Ukrainian armed forces and the head of the country’s railways announced.
Black smoke rose in the sky over the eastern suburbs of Kiev. At least a man was taken to hospitalalthough no deaths were reported, said Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
The Ukrainian air defense shot down a Russian rocket around 6 p.m. (local time and Greek time), announced the armed forces.
A Russian missile, possibly aimed at Kyiv, flew extremely low over a large nuclear power plant in the southern Mykolaiv region, Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear energy company Energoatom told the Telegram. He later posted a video that seemed to confirm the report. Reuters was unable to confirm the images from an independent source.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its missiles destroyed T-72 tanks and armored vehicles supplied to Ukraine by Eastern European countries and were at a railway repair facility in Kyiv.
