At least four people were killed this morning in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, the new center of the attacks carried out by Russia during the past few hours in different regions of the country. About eight hours ago, the sky witnessed the arrival of about half a thousand drones and about twenty missiles of various types launched by the Kremlin forces, and local anti-aircraft defenses attempted to intercept them. The target this time in the country’s main city was a train of apartment buildings in different neighborhoods. Emergency services procedures continue as daylight arrives.
The first statements of the capital’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, spoke of three men killed and three heroes, including at least children and an embarrassed woman. Shortly after, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who described the attack as a “brutal attack,” raised the death toll to four.
“This was a deliberate attack with the aim of causing maximum damage to the population and civilian infrastructure. So far, dozens of residential buildings in Kiev have been damaged,” the president denounced on his social networks, reporting some damage to the headquarters of the Azerbaijan embassy due to the Iskander missile launch.
In addition to Kyiv, attacks were carried out in the Jarkiv, Odessa and Sumy regions. Zelensky said at the time, warning of his armed forces’ ability to launch a “long-range” response: “We are working intensively with our partners to strengthen our air defense, but this is not enough.”
“We need resources with additional systems and interceptor missiles. Europe and the United States can help,” he complained amid the controversy over the continuing demand, accompanied by denials, for the supply of powerful Tomahawk missiles to Washington. But US President Donald Trump expressed reservations in the face of the escalation that could be expected from the conflict.
The offensive began shortly after the middle of the year with the Ukrainian capital plunged into darkness due to the interruption of electricity supplies that imposed the Russian attack on energy infrastructures in the fourth winter since Moscow launched a large-scale invasion in February 2022. This is a strategy that has been underway in previous years and, on this occasion, finds a response from Ukraine, which in turn is bombing the country’s vital supply points as a result of a kind of tit-for-tat between civilians and the main victims. Zelensky said in his letter: “Russia can only sell oil and implement its projects. All this must end.”
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