One building at the base was destroyed and two others were damaged, while one of the six missiles was shot down by Ukrainian air defenses.
Russian cruise missiles they had as target military base near Kyivpartially destroying it, as announced today Ukrainian General Staff of the Armed Forces.
“Around 05:00 in the morning (local and Greek time), the enemy launched an attack by firing six Kalibr missiles against a military unit in Lyutizi, Kyiv region”Oleksii Gromov, a senior staff officer, told reporters.
According to him, one building at the base was destroyed and two others were damaged, while one of the six missiles was shot down by Ukrainian air defenses. These missiles were launched from Crimea, a peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014, according to the same source.
Other shelling from multiple rocket launchers targeted the Chernihiv region in northern Ukraine and was launched from neighboring Belarus, a Moscow ally, Gromov added, citing “casualties” in the Ukrainian military.
According to him, Russian forces continue to try to advance towards Shiversk and Bakmut, in the Donbass, an industrial region that Moscow aspires to conquer. The situation there is “difficult but absolutely under control,” Gromov said.
In the occupied region of Kherson, in the southern part of the country, where Ukrainian forces are carrying out a counterattack, three villages have been recaptured by the Russians in the last two weeks, he added.
Other Ukrainian officials reported Russian shelling in several areas today.
“It was a hectic morning. Once again, we had the terror of missiles,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram, assuring, however, that Kyiv would not surrender.
At least one person was killed and two were injured in a strike in the Dnipropetrovsk region, local governor Valentin Reznichenko announced on Telegram.
The governor of the Mykolayiv region in the south of the country reported “massive” rocket shelling that destroyed a school and injured at least one person.
The mayor of Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city in northeastern Ukraine, said two S-300 missile strikes caused fires.
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