Missile attack in kyiv leaves two injured

Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses shot down about twenty missiles heading towards the capital during the night from Sunday to Monday.

Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses shot down about twenty missiles heading towards kyiv on the night of Sunday 1 to Monday 2 September, local authorities announced, during an attack which left two people injured. “Russian forces have carried out a new missile strike on kyiv. It combined cruise missiles and ballistic missiles”the Ukrainian capital’s civil and military administration said on Telegram.

Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said two adults were injured and four cars caught fire after debris fell. In two other districts of the capital, a boiler room fire was quickly extinguished, while another fire affected a business, the mayor said.

According to the civil and military administration of the Ukrainian capitalthe cruise missiles were fired from strategic bombers flying in the Russian region of Saratov and after carrying out “complex maneuvers”arrived in the direction of kyiv from the south. “The air defense forces destroyed more than ten cruise missiles and about ten ballistic missiles, as well as a drone, in the airspace of the capital.”the source said.

In the city of Sumy, in the northeast of the country, a social and psychological support center for children and an orphanage were also hit on Sunday evening by a Russian missile, injuring 13 people, including four minors, according to the city’s mayor.

On the Russian side, the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reported a Ukrainian airstrike during the night which left one person injured and damaged, among other things, a business and infrastructure in the city of Belgorod.