At least two loud explosions were heard in the early hours of today in the center of Kiev, the day after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a journalist of the French Agency found.
Through Facebook, the Ukrainian land army spoke of “missile attacks” against the Ukrainian capital and assured that two of the missiles were intercepted and shot down.
He also uploaded a short amateur video showing an apartment building in flames.
For his part, the mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, said that three people were injured, one seriously, by rocket-propelled grenades that fell on a district of the capital.
A photo uploaded by Mr. Klitschko shows firefighters at work in front of a building that has been damaged and emits smoke.
The Ukrainian armed forces shot down in the early morning hours today a “Russian plane” in Kiev, which crashed into a nine-storey apartment building causing a fire, said for his part Anton Gerastshenko, the Ukrainian Deputy Interior Minister. It is not clear if this was a fighter or remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or whether it referred to the missiles the military was talking about.
The advance of Russian forces makes many fear that Kiev will be attacked soon and that attacks on strategic and government facilities in the capital will multiply.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba spoke of “horrific blows” in Kiev from Russia, which resembled those of Nazi Germany. “The last time our capital had experienced such a thing was in 1941, when it was attacked by Nazi Germany. “Ukraine has defeated that evil and it will defeat that,” he said. He called for sanctions against Russia and President Vladimir Putin and for all countries to sever ties with Moscow and “kick the Russians everywhere.” “Stop Putin. “Isolate Russia,” he demanded.
On the first day of the invasion, the Antonov military airport in Gostomel, near the gates of Kiev, was attacked by Russian forces who were transported there by helicopter, according to Ukrainian sources, who confirmed that the attack was repulsed.
Earlier in the day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of the presence of Russian “sabotage groups” in the Ukrainian capital, urging its residents to be vigilant and abide by the night-time curfew.
In addition to Kiev, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry also said today that a rocket had been fired at a border post in the southeastern region of Zaporizhia and that there were “dead and wounded.”
This region does not have a land border with Russia, but is bordered by the Sea of ​​Azov.
President Zelensky, who initially declared martial law for thirty days and severed Kiev’s diplomatic relations with Moscow, signed a general mobilization order yesterday.
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