Russian ballistic missiles struck a minimum of two districts within the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Thursday (Jul 16), triggering fires and killing two folks, officers stated.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko, writing on Telegram, stated two folks had died and 6 others, together with a 16-year-old teenager, had been injured within the assaults.
Reuters witnesses heard a sequence of explosions within the metropolis.
Tymur Tkachenko, head of the town’s army administration, stated Russia was attacking Kyiv with ballistic missiles.
It was the sixth such assault on the Ukrainian capital in July alone, as Russia escalates its air strikes in opposition to Ukraine.
Ukraine’s emergency companies stated a hearth broke out in two storage buildings and close by parked vehicles in one of many districts, the place the 2 folks had died.
Within the metropolis’s Svyatoshynskyi district west of the town centre, a hearth broke out in a one-storey warehouse.
5 folks have been injured within the two incidents, the emergency companies stated.
The Black Sea port metropolis of Odesa additionally got here below assault early on Thursday, the pinnacle of the town’s army administration Serhiy Lysak stated, including that an academic facility had been broken.
