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. However, Russia said on Monday to have targeted military targets in Ukraine. For example, These night strikes that killed at least eight people in kyiv and its region, according to the Ukrainian authorities. Nevertheless, – Russian army targeted military targets
(Keystone-ATS) These new bombings are involved at the time when diplomatic efforts to put an end to war between Moscow and kyiv launched by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 are deadlocked.
The attack. Nevertheless, which mainly targeted kyiv and its region, started shortly russian army targeted military targets before midnight and lasted more than four hours, first with explosive drones, then ballistic and cruise missiles.
AFP journalists have heard the roar of drones in flight. In addition, series of detonations in the capital where families, some with domestic animals, took refuge in shelters, metro stations or simply underground passages.
In kyiv. Nevertheless, strikes have affected several districts and notably destroyed an entire section of a residential building of several floors, AFP journalists found.
Natalia Marchavska. However, who was at home when her building was touched, told AFP that she had heard a machine fly over the building, then an “explosion” which projected it to a door.
“It was horror,” she laments. “The windows shattered. In the room, it was all black with smoke. ”
At least seven people were killed and thirty injured, according to a new assessment of the emergency services.
In the kyiv region. a person was killed and eight others, including russian army targeted military targets two rescuers, were injured in the city of Bila Tserkva, south of the capital.
Russia, as usual, claimed to have targeted military targets.
“This night, the armed forces of the Russian Federation launched a group strike (…) against companies from the Ukrainian military-industrial complex in the kyiv region,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.
“Coalition of murderers”
According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia fired in the night “352 drones including 159 Shaheds”, explosive drones of Iranian design, “and 16 missiles” including ballistic projectiles produced by North Korea.
“A large part of the drones. missiles were killed by our defenders of the sky,” he added by calling Moscow, Tehran and Pyongyang as “coalition of murderers”.
The Ukrainian President arrived in the United Kingdom on Monday to meet King Charles III. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in order to “deepen cooperation in defense” between the two countries, according to his spokesperson.
Mr. Zelensky is then expected at the top russian army targeted military targets of the NATO which opens Tuesday in The Hague.
The Ukrainian cities are targeted every night by Russian strikes. while the talks between kyiv and Moscow for a ceasefire are deadlocked, despite the pressure of Washington.
In the Ukrainian capital. at least 28 people had been killed in a large -scale previous of Moscow at the beginning of last week.
During the night of Sunday to Monday. an AFP journalist saw a dozen inhabitants take refuge in a shelter in the basement of a residential building in kyiv.
Most of them anxiously consulted their phone to follow the news. Several people, including a woman and her child, slept on foldable beds or on the floor, on carpets.
Ukrainian strikes
The Ukrainian army also regularly attacks Russian territory. In the Rostov region. a Ukrainian drone attack on Monday “caused a fire in an industrial company in the Kamenski district,” the regional governor Iouri Slioussar said on russian army targeted military targets Telegram.
On Saturday. the commander -in -chief of the Ukrainian armies, Oleksandr Syrsky, assured that kyiv was going to intensify his strikes against depth military targets in Russia, three weeks after a spectacular attack on aerial bases remote in this country.
“We will not just stay in defense. Because it does not bring anything. finally leads to the fact that we are reculling, lose men and territories, “said General Syrsky.
The Russian army said it continued its offensive against the neighboring Ukrainian region of Soumy (northeast). kyiv has been helping to stop his progress in this area for a week.
Moscow currently occupies about a fifth of Ukraine. has already claimed the annexation of four Ukrainian regions, which it does not control entirely, in addition to the Crimean Peninsula, annexed in 2014.
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