Railway infrastructure and a military airfield have been targeted by Russian strikes in central Ukraine.
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At least three people, including a soldier, were killed when Russian missiles fired on railway infrastructure and a military airfield in central Ukraine on Saturday July 23, the governor of Kirovograd announced. “Nine Ukrainian servicemen were injured and one soldier was killed. According to preliminary information, two guards of an electrical substation were killed”Andriy Raikovych, head of the Kirovograd region, told Ukrainian media.
Russian strikes on central Ukraine have resumed after a lull in fighting focused on Donbass in the east of the country, whose territory is now mostly controlled by Moscow forces. In a statement posted earlier on social media, Andriy Raikovych said 13 Russian cruise missiles launched from the sea fell near the town of Kropyvnytskyi located in the Kirovograd region.
“Infrastructure facilities [situées] outside the regional center [la ville de Kropyvnytskyi] were targeted, in particular the Kanatove military airfield and a facility linked to Ukrainian railways”, said the head of the Kirovograd region. The city of Kropyvnytskyi had before the Russian invasion about 220,000 people. It is located about 300 km south of kyiv, the Ukrainian capital.