On Thursday, the Russian military began fresh aerial bombardment on Kyiv, which claimed the life of at least three people and wounded others.
This was a follow-up of the 17 attacks that were reported in Kyiv, where mostly drones were used. Russia attacked in the early morning with ground-launched missiles which damaged apartment buildings, a water pipeline, a car and a medical clinic.
A building demolished by a drone, in another Russian strike, in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 1, 2023. (Photo: AP)
According to the reports published by Kyiv city administration, three people were killed, among whom two were children and ten people were wounded. Kyiv authorities strictly warned residents to adhere to sirens and stay inside shelters and other safe places. This came after a woman was killed earlier this week while watching an aerial bombing from the balcony.
The air defences of Ukraine have become more efficient in detecting Russian missiles and drones, but the debris that accumulates sometimes leads to fire and injuries in the buildings and on the ground. The earlier analysis was that Kyiv’s air defences had detected all the incoming attacks and that the injuries and deaths were the results of the falling debris.
The debris fell onto a multi-storey building and a hospital in Desnianskyi district. In Dniprovskyi district, the debris damaged a residential building, it fell on the road and also led to parked cars catching fire.
On Wednesday, three aerial attacks were launched over the south Kherson area by the Russian forces in consonance with heavy artillery strikes and missile attacks on other parts of the region.
Earlier developments:
- Nikopol, a coastal city in Ukraine attacked
The city of Nikopol and neighbouring villages on the bank of the Dnieper River were attacked by the Russian forces around Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant with drones and heavy artillery leading to several demolished residences.
- Drones crash into oil refineries
According to the reports by the authorities in Russia’s southern region, Krasnodar, bordering the Crimean peninsula which was annexed, drones crashed into two oil refineries. They did not publicly accuse Ukraine and stated that one shortly caught fire and the other could not sustain the attack.
- Evacuation alert by the governor of Belgorod
Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of Belgorod in Russia, ordered the evacuation of children from two areas that have often suffered Ukrainian shelling.
- Karpaty shelling claimed 5 lives while leaving 19 injured
The Ukrainian troops reported that the village of Karpaty was shelled by the Russian-installed authorities of the partly occupied Luhansk region leaving five people dead and nineteen of them injured.
- Further cross-border attacks in Kursk
Roman Starovoit, the regional governor informed that two construction workers in the Kursk region of Russia were injured from a shelling from Ukraine in what is thought to be another cross-border attack. They were reportedly working on a defensive line along the state border in the Korenevsky district.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that Yurii Olefirenko, the Ukrainian Navy’s landing ship was destroyed in a strike on the Odesa harbor Monday. There was no instant reaction from Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the Yurii Olefirenko was the last Ukrainian Navy ship that was in service, but this claim could not be independently verified.
