(Kiev) Two strong explosions sounded at dawn Friday in the center of Kiev, the day after the start of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, noted an AFP journalist.
Updated yesterday at 11:56 p.m.
On its Facebook account, the Ukrainian army indicated that “missile fire” was aimed at Kiev, stating that it had destroyed two of these missiles in flight.
She posted a short amateur video showing an apartment building in the throes of a fire.
The head of Ukrainian diplomacy denounced Friday the firing of Russian missiles which hit Kiev at dawn, injuring at least three people, the day after the start of the Russian invasion of the country.
“Horrible Russian missile fire on Kiev. The last time our capital saw something like this was in 1941 when it was attacked by Nazi Germany. Ukraine has defeated this demon and will also defeat this one, ”said Dmytro Kouleba in a message on his Twitter account.
The mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, told him that three people had been injured, one of them seriously, by debris from missiles that fell in a residential area in the south-east of the capital.
In a photo published by Mr. Klitschko, two firefighters were hard at work in front of a smoking and badly damaged building.
The progression of Russian forces raises fears of an assault and the multiplication of targeted attacks on the capital and on strategic and government installations.
The day before, the Antonov military airport in Gostomel, at the gates of Kiev, was the target of an attack by Russian airborne forces who arrived in helicopters and clashed with units of the Ukrainian army.
Gostomel Airport sits immediately on the northern edge of Kyiv, and the fighting there was closest to the capital on the first day of the Russian attack.
On the night of Thursday to Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky also warned of the presence of Russian “groups of saboteurs” in the city and called on residents to be vigilant and to respect the curfew now in force.
Outside Kyiv, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry also reported an early morning Russian missile strike on a border guard unit in the Zaporizhia region on Friday, a strike that the source said left “deaths and deaths.” injuried people “.