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A bombardment on Sunday morning in Kyiv It left two wounded in a residential complex near the center of the Ukrainian capital, which had not registered Russian attacks since the beginning of June, AFP journalists found.
“After an enemy bombardment, a fire broke out in a nine-story building”communicated the state emergency service on Telegram.
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At least two people were hospitalizedindicated in Telegram the mayor of the capital, Vitaly Klitschkowho specified that there were people “under the rubble”, so the balance could worsen.
It is about “intimidating the Ukrainians (…) in the face of the proximity of the NATO summit”, which will take place in Madrid from June 28 to 30, Klistchko declared that he went to the place where the bombing took place.
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An AFP team saw the top three floors of a building on fire and the staircase completely destroyed, while police cordoned off the area.
Four explosions were heard around 0630 local time (0330 GMT), half an hour after anti-aircraft sirens sounded in the city.
“A missile was shot down by anti-aircraft defense in the region of Kyivthe rubble fell on a village”, said the governor of the region of Kyiv, Oleksiy Kuleba, on Telegram. “The enemy hit the capital,” he added.
“Several explosions in the Chevchenkivsky district”from the center to the northwest of the capital, the mayor of KyivVitaly Klitschko.
“Ambulances and rescue personnel are on site. In two buildings, the rescue and evacuation of residents is ongoing,” she added.
A Ukrainian deputy, Oleksiï Goncharenko, stated on Telegram that the Russians had fired 14 missiles at kyiv and its region in the morning.
Many residents, including a woman in a bathrobe, were at the foot of the buildings. Many of them cried.
“This is the third time they have bombed here. I woke up with the first explosion, I went to the balcony and I saw missiles fall and I heard a huge explosion, everything vibrated.Yuri, a 38-year-old resident, told AFP that he declined to give his last name.
Irena, 32, was out with her 17-month-old son Makar. “We went downstairs with our emergency backpack that has been by the door since the beginning of the war because we had to evacuate,” she said.
“There were four missiles starting at 6:30 am,” said Edouard Chkouta, a resident of the neighboring building.
They hit a building “directly on the top floors and I saw people injured,” he added.
The last Russian attack in June was against a factory on the outskirts of kyiv and left one injured.
At the end of April, a Ukrainian Radio Liberty journalist died in her apartment in Kyivin a bombing during the visit to the capital of the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres.
Source: Elcomercio
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