A destroyed Russian tank lies amongst timber in Kurilovka, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. Kurilovka was retaken by the Ukrainian military on the finish of September.
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A destroyed Russian tank lies amongst timber in Kurilovka, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. Kurilovka was retaken by the Ukrainian military on the finish of September.
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KYIV, Ukraine — A number of loud explosions rocked the middle of the Ukrainian capital Monday, per week after Russia orchestrated a large, coordinated air strike throughout the nation.
Kyiv metropolis mayor Vitaliy Klichko mentioned the central Shevchenko district of the capital had been hit, and urged residents to take shelter. No additional particulars had been instantly identified.
The explosions got here from the identical central Kyiv district the place per week in the past a missile struck a kids’s playground and intersection close to the Kyiv Nationwide College’s most important buildings.
Social media posts confirmed a fireplace within the space of the apparently strike, with black smoke rising into the early morning gentle.
Russian forces struck Kyiv with Iranian Shahed drones, wrote Andrii Yermak, the top of the Ukrainian president’s workplace, in a submit on the Telegram social media website. Russia has repeatedly been utilizing the so-called suicide drones in latest weeks to focus on city facilities and infrastructure, together with energy stations.
The strike on Kyiv comes as preventing has intensified within the jap areas of Donetsk and Luhansk in latest days, in addition to the continued Ukrainian counteroffensive within the south close to Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned final night time in his night deal with that there was heavy preventing across the cities of Bakhmut and Soledar within the Donetsk area. The Donetsk and Luhansk areas make up the majority of the commercial east referred to as the Donbas, and had been two of 4 areas annexed by Russia in September in defiance of worldwide regulation.
On Sunday, the Russian-backed regime within the Donetsk area mentioned Ukraine had shelled its central administrative constructing in a direct hit. No casualties had been reported.
