Eleven people die and 46 others are injured in Russian bombings against kyiv

At least eleven people have died and another 46 have been injured due to new bombings launched since late Sunday by the Russian Army against the capital of Ukraine, kyiv, as confirmed by the authorities in their latest report, although they have already warned that the number of fatalities could continue to increase in the coming hours.

“According to doctors, there are currently eleven victims of the enemy’s night attack on kyiv,” the mayor of kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, reported online, attributing one of the deaths to “a wounded man who died this morning in the hospital.” The injured, on the other hand, amount to 46, of whom 27 have been hospitalized, “including three children,” he stressed.

The local leader has warned that “there is destruction and damage in four districts of the city.” “The Podilski district is the one that has suffered the most,” he warned, pointing to impacts on residential apartment blocks that have also occurred in the Darnitski district.

The rescue teams, who “are also remedying the consequences of the attack in the Obolonski and Holosiivski districts”, are working in the aforementioned areas and doctors are in the buildings where the impacts occurred, he noted.

This situation coincides with that described by the governor of kyiv, Timur Tkachenko, who lamented that “the most serious situation occurs in the districts of Darnitsia and Podilski, where the Russians have directly bombed high-rise residential buildings. “The situation is changing,” he stressed, noting that “relief operations are being carried out in more than 20 places.”

The Ukrainian Air Force has indicated in a statement that Russian troops have launched 351 drones and 68 missiles against the country overnight, including six ‘Zircon’ anti-ship missiles, 29 ‘Iskander’ and ‘Kalibr’ ballistic missiles, and 33 ‘Kh-101’ cruise missiles.

Thus, it has stated that air defense systems have shot down 37 missiles and 326 drones, although it has confirmed hits in 34 locations in Ukraine, as well as the fall of remains from interceptions in another 16 places. “The attack continues, given that there are numerous drones in Ukrainian airspace,” he warned.

For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense has confirmed a “massive attack” against Ukraine, in what it described as “a response to the kyiv regime’s terrorist attacks against civilian infrastructure in Russia,” according to a statement published through social networks.

The ministry has reported that its troops have used “precision and long-range weapons”, in addition to drones, to attack “military industry facilities and fuel and energy facilities” in kyiv and the kyiv region, as well as “military airfield infrastructure” in kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Cherkassy and Chernigov.

The attack began hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of new Russian saturation attacks, citing information from Ukrainian intelligence. “It’s typical of (Vladimir) Putin: right after American Independence Day and before the NATO summit in Ankara,” he said in his usual daily afternoon message.