kyiv under curfew, a factory targeted by Russian bombings

Still bombarded by Russia, the capital of Ukraine, kyiv, is under curfew until Thursday, March 17, in the morning. An airport west of the city was hit. “This is where the Antonov aircraft base is located. There is a factory that manufactures these planes, but which today is used by Ukrainians to receive and store military equipment, be it missiles, weapons“, reports the journalist Agnès Vahramian, special correspondent in kyiv, for the 8 Hours of France 2, Wednesday March 16.

“This base is regularly bombed. It is about fifteen kilometers as the crow flies west of downtown kyiv. This is where the world’s first large Antonov aircraft was located, which was destroyed at the beginning of the war“, specifies the journalist, who adds that a missile having targeted this base would have been intercepted. “The remains of this missile fell on the top of a building, of course causing damage, but a priori, no injuries“, continues Agnès Vahramian.