According to Vitali Klitschko, mayor of Kyiv, there have been many explosions in the city’s central area.
According to Klitschko on the messaging app Telegram, the explosions that occurred early on Monday in the capital’s Shevchenkivskyi area caused damage to a number of residential buildings.
Klitshchko said, “Rescuers are on the scene,” and added that a non-residential building also caught fire as a result of what he said was a drone attack.
On casualties, there was no recent information.
Shortly after the air raid sirens sounded, at around 6:35 and 6:45am (03:35 and 03:45 GMT), journalists from the AFP news agency reported two explosions. There were two bombs, witnesses told the Reuters news agency.
Several missiles were fired at the Shevchenkivskyi area of Kyiv, a busy area with universities, student bars, and restaurants, during rush hour a week ago as part of a Russian bombardment of Ukraine’s major cities in response to an attack on the crucial Kerch bridge, which connects Russia with the Crimean peninsula that has been annexed by Russia.
Since Russia gave up trying to take the city in the early weeks of the war that began on February 24, those assaults were the most intense.
In the southern Kherson and eastern Donetsk regions, there has been “fierce fighting” since the most recent raids.
He accused Russia of putting 2,000 “convicts” – some serving long sentences for serious crimes – on the battlefield.
“They are kept on the front not only with money but also with the promise of amnesty,” he said.
