KYIV: Several people were killed in Russian missile attacks and artillery exchanges in Ukraine.
According to the General Staff in Kyiv, the Russian military used cruise missiles and combat aircraft. Several civilians were killed or injured in attacks in the east of the country and in central Ukraine. Numerous residential buildings and infrastructure objects were also damaged or destroyed.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for a strengthening of his country’s air defence.
“We are working with our partners as actively as possible to make the protection of our skies even more reliable,” Zelensky said on his nightly video address.
“Last night alone, from midnight to seven in the morning, we managed to shoot down 15 Russian missiles,” Zelensky said. “But unfortunately not all of them”.
In the Zaporizhzhya region in central Ukraine, Russian and Ukrainian military forces engaged in intense artillery exchanges during the day.
At least two civilians were killed and 14 others wounded in Mikhaylovka, which is occupied by Russian troops. The warring parties’ statements could not immediately be independently verified.
New explosions over the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea caused unrest among its population. According to Russian media, a Ukrainian drone was shot down by air defence in the west of the peninsula. At the weekend, a fuel depot in the port city of Sevastopol was set on fire by a drone attack.
The number of people injured in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region following overnight Russian missile strikes rose to 34, according to the latest figures on Monday.
“There are already 34 injured from the missile strike on Pavlohrad district,” the region’s governor, Serhiy Lysak, said on Telegram,after earlier saying 25 had been hurt.
Most of the victims have suffered fractures, bruises, wounds from splinters and smoke inhalation from fires that broke out after the rocket attacks. — dpa
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