At least six people were killed in the multiple Russian strikes carried out Monday morning on Ukraine, in particular on the capital kyiv and the region of Sumy (northeast), announced the local authorities.
“At present, the number of people killed as a result of a suicide drone attack on a residential building (in Kyiv) has risen to three,” Ukrainian presidential official Kyrylo Tymoshenko said on Telegram.
An AFP journalist saw one of these drones descend on a building in the Ukrainian capital, as two kneeling police officers tried to shoot it down with their service weapons, and several very loud explosions were heard , exactly one week after the previous Russian strikes on kyiv.
The mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko, indicated later in the morning that a pregnant woman had died in the strike against this residential building, located in the city center and which partially collapsed.
During search and rescue operations […], the bodies of three dead civilians have been removed,” he said. “Among them is a young couple, a husband and wife who were expecting a child. She was 6 months pregnant,” he said.
According to Prime Minister Denys Chmygal, “energy installations and a residential building were damaged”.
In the Sumy region, targeted by “missile attacks”, according to Denys Chmygal, three deaths have been reported at this stage by the regional governor, Dmytro Zhivitskiï.
“At 5:20 a.m. (local time), three Russian rockets hit civilian infrastructure,” he said. Before adding: “At least three people are dead. Nine are injured.
Russian strikes on Monday morning on “energy infrastructure” in three regions of Ukraine, including the capital kyiv, but also the regions of Dnipropetrovsk (center-east) and Sumy (north-east), caused numerous power cuts, according to Denys Chmygal.
“Hundreds of localities are without electricity,” he said.
“All departments are currently working […] to restore the electricity supply”, he assured, asking the population of these three regions “to save electricity consumption, especially during peak hours”.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region (center-east), also affected, “our soldiers shot down three enemy missiles,” added the Ukrainian presidency, but “a rocket hit an energy infrastructure facility,” he said. she clarified.