Ukraine: a major Russian missile attack with more than 100 missiles

Presidential advisor Oleksiy Aristovich wrote on Facebook that more than 100 rockets had been launched in several waves and that sirens could be heard from the airport. airstrikes all over the country.

A Reuters correspondent and local media reports stated that explosions were heard in the area Kyiv and gitomer fOdessa.

The Kyiv regional administration said air defense systems had been activated to repel the attack missile attack Continuous, while sounds of explosions were heard in the city of Kyiv.

She said Ukrainian authorities In several areas if some Russian missiles shot down, according to the Associated Press.

On the other hand, he declared Ukrainian Air Force “Intense” Russian missile strikes targeted Thursday morning a number of cities in the country, including the capital, Kyiv.

Air Force wrote on Social Media Attacks the enemy Ukraine On several fronts, with cruise missiles launched from aircraft and ships.

And it was announced Blackouts In the Odessa region andDnepropetrovsk With the aim of minimizing potential damage to the energy infrastructure.

The mayors of each city said Kharkiv In eastern Ukraine, the capital Kyiv and the city of Lviv in the west, on Thursday, Russian missiles hit the three cities, causing a series of explosions.

Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said officials were working to determine what was injured and if there were any casualties, while Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko warned of a possible power outage and asked residents to charge their phones, according to Reuters.

It was reported that the city group Ukraine is now 90 percent deprived of electricity after the Russian missile strikes, according to AFP.

The Ukrainian mayor of Lviv said that electricity was cut off in most parts of the city after the Russian raids.

Thursday’s attack is the latest in a series of targeted Russian strikes Infrastructure vital throughout Ukraine.

Moscow has launched such attacks every week since last October, in the wake of the attack on the Crimean Bridge.

According to the Russian news agency, Novosti, launched Sirenearlier, in Odessa, Nikolaev, Sumy, Poltava, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kiev, Zhitomir, Vinnytsia, Cherkassy, ​​Kirovograd regions and some parts of Kiev-controlled Zaporizhia and Kherson.

Air alert was declared in the Khmelnytskyi, Rivne, Ternopol, Chernivtsi, Lvov, Transcarpathian, Volyn and Ivano-Frankivsk regions at exactly nine o’clock on Thursday Moscow time.