Kyiv says Russia launched 75 missiles on Ukraine Monday morning.
New Delhi:
Ukraine’s presidency said on Monday there were strikes on “many” cities in Ukraine, a day after Moscow blamed Kyiv for an explosion on a bridge connecting Crimea to Russia.
“Ukraine is under missile attack. There is information about strikes in many cities of our country,” Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the president’s office, said on social media, calling on the population to “stay in shelters”. Kyiv says Russia launched 75 missiles on Ukraine Monday morning.
The explosions hit Kyiv around 8:15 am local time (0515 GMT), and an AFP journalist in the city saw numerous ambulances appearing to head towards the scene of the blasts. Kyiv heard at least five blasts on Monday morning.
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Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia timed its strikes on Ukraine on Monday to inflict the greatest possible losses among people and had also targeted the country’s energy infrastructure.
“They want panic and chaos, they want to destroy our energy system,” President Zelensky said.
As explosions hit Ukraine’s capital Kyiv today, videos capturing the massive destruction in the city started doing the rounds on social media.
“They are trying to destroy us and wipe us off the face of the earth…destroy our people who are sleeping at home in (the city of) Zaporizhzhia. Kill people who go to work in Dnipro and Kyiv,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today. Read here.