Russia launched a large-scale missile attack across Ukraine at the start of peak morning hours yesterday, hitting residential and industrial facilities, killing at least one person and injuring at least 30, Ukrainian officials said.
Agence France-Presse reported that at least three people died in the strikes.
All of Ukraine was under air raid alerts from about 6am with the Ukrainian Air Force saying the country was under several waves of cruise missile threat and in some regions ballistic missiles.
Photo: Reuters
“The enemy is viciously attacking peaceful cities,” Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the military administration of Kryvyi Rih, wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
Full information about the extent of potential damages would be disclosed after the Russian attack was over, Vilkul said.
The targets of the Russian attack and the full scale of the strikes was not immediately clear. There was no immediate comment from Moscow.
The heaviest casualty toll was in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, where a woman died in a missile attack outside Kryvyi Rih, and 24 were injured in a strike on Novomoskovsk.
Oleksiy Kuleba, deputy head of the office of the Ukrainian president, said that two people died in Khmelnytskyi and Kharkiv Oblast.
In Kryvyi Rih itself, more than 20 houses and a shopping center were damaged in a missile attack, Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak said.
At least four missiles hit Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, injuring one person, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
Kharkiv Governor Oleh Syniehubov also said that two people were injured and two more were trapped under rubble after a strike on Zmiiv.
Acting Mayor of Zaporizhzhia Anatoliy Kurtiev said on Telegram that a missile attack on the city resulted in injuries, but did not provide further detail.
Five blasts were reported in Zaporizhzhia, regional Governor Yuriy Malashko said, adding that at least two people were injured.
“Missiles hit residential areas,” Malaskho said on Telegram.
Military officials in other cities, including Dnipropetrovsk and Khmelnytskyi have also said they were under a “massive missile attack” by Russia.
Nearly two years into the war that Russia started with a full-scale invasion, both sides have shifted to increased airstrikes at each other’s territories, having struggled to make significant gains along the front lines.
Meanwhile, Russia evacuated about 300 residents of Belgorod, a city near the Ukrainian border, over strikes by Kyiv, the governor of the region.
“Some 300 residents of Belgorod, who decided to temporarily evacuate, are at the moment being housed in temporary shelter centres in Stary Oskol, Gubkin and the Korochansky district,” which are further from the border, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a video posted on Telegram.
“Over the past 24 hours we received 1,300 requests to send Belgorod children to school camps away from the city, in other regions,” he said.
The evacuation from Belgorod is the largest of a major Russian city since the war began.
Additional reporting by AFP
ECONOMIC WORRIES: The ruling PAP faces voters amid concerns that the city-state faces the possibility of a recession and job losses amid Washington’s tariffs Singapore yesterday finalized contestants for its general election on Saturday next week, with the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) fielding 32 new candidates in the biggest refresh of the party that has ruled the city-state since independence in 1965. The move follows a pledge by Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (黃循財), who took office last year and assumed the PAP leadership, to “bring in new blood, new ideas and new energy” to steer the country of 6 million people. His latest shake-up beats that of predecessors Lee Hsien Loong (李顯龍) and Goh Chok Tong (吳作棟), who replaced 24 and 11 politicians respectively
Archeologists in Peru on Thursday said they found the 5,000-year-old remains of a noblewoman at the sacred city of Caral, revealing the important role played by women in the oldest center of civilization in the Americas. “What has been discovered corresponds to a woman who apparently had elevated status, an elite woman,” archeologist David Palomino said. The mummy was found in Aspero, a sacred site within the city of Caral that was a garbage dump for more than 30 years until becoming an archeological site in the 1990s. Palomino said the carefully preserved remains, dating to 3,000BC, contained skin, part of the
‘WATER WARFARE’: A Pakistani official called India’s suspension of a 65-year-old treaty on the sharing of waters from the Indus River ‘a cowardly, illegal move’ Pakistan yesterday canceled visas for Indian nationals, closed its airspace for all Indian-owned or operated airlines, and suspended all trade with India, including to and from any third country. The retaliatory measures follow India’s decision to suspend visas for Pakistani nationals in the aftermath of a deadly attack by shooters in Kashmir that killed 26 people, mostly tourists. The rare attack on civilians shocked and outraged India and prompted calls for action against their country’s archenemy, Pakistan. New Delhi did not publicly produce evidence connecting the attack to its neighbor, but said it had “cross-border” links to Pakistan. Pakistan denied any connection to
A US federal judge on Tuesday ordered US President Donald Trump’s administration to halt efforts to shut down Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks, the news broadcasts of which are funded by the government to export US values to the world. US District Judge Royce Lamberth, who is overseeing six lawsuits from employees and contractors affected by the shutdown of the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), ordered the administration to “take all necessary steps” to restore employees and contractors to their positions and resume radio, television and online news broadcasts. USAGM placed more than 1,000
RSS