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At least one particular person has been killed and several other embassies have been broken in an early morning Russian missile assault on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.
The Kyiv City Military Administration confirmed the loss of life in a put up on Telegram, including that 12 others have been injured. Of these injured, 5 have been hospitalized whereas the remaining have been handled on the scene.
It comes a day after Russian chief Vladimir Putin challenged Ukraine to a “duel” in his end-of-year convention, prompting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to name the Russian chief a “dumbass.”
“Let them suggest… some type of technological experiment – a type of high-tech duel of the twenty first century, let’s say,” Putin stated throughout Thursday’s occasion in Moscow. Zelensky in response hurled the impolite epithet on the Kremlin chief in feedback made on-line.
According to Ukraine’s Air Force Command, Russia fired 5 ballistic missiles at Kyiv at round 7 a.m. on Friday. Ukrainian air defenses shot down all 5 missiles. In addition, 40 UAVs have been shot down, and one other 20 drones didn’t attain their targets, in keeping with the command. However, falling particles brought about injury and accidents within the metropolis middle, officers stated.
In one district, an workplace constructing, street floor and gasoline pipe have been broken, and 5 vehicles caught hearth, Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, stated on Telegram. In one other district, a hearth broke out on the web site of a constructing beneath building.
Several embassies housed in the identical constructing have been broken, in keeping with Ukraine’s overseas ministry, with a spokesperson, Heorhii Tykhyi, calling the assault “barbaric.”
“These are the embassies of Albania, Argentina, Palestine, North Macedonia, Portugal and Montenegro,” Tykhyi informed a media briefing. “Windows and doorways have been smashed within the premises.”
Portugal stated the power suffered gentle injury and summoned the Russian chargé d’affaires to protest.
Russia’s protection ministry stated it launched long-range missiles at Ukrainian navy targets on Friday, in response to a Ukrainian assault concentrating on a chemical plant in Russia’s Rostov area earlier this week. That assault was carried out utilizing American-made ATACMS missiles, the ministry stated.
“In response to the actions of the Kyiv regime, supported by Western curators, this morning a gaggle strike with long-range precision weapons was launched towards the SBU command put up, the Kyiv Luch design bureau, which designs and manufactures Neptune missile techniques, Olkha ground-based cruise missiles, and the positions of the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system,” Russia’s Ministry of Defense wrote on Telegram.
“The strike targets have been achieved. All objects have been hit,” it added.
Zelensky stated Friday in response to Russia’s missile assault of Kyiv “extra sanctions towards Russia are wanted.”
“I’d additionally prefer to thank all of our companions who’re responding to this and different Russian assaults by being prepared to supply extra air protection techniques,” the Ukrainian president added.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, the town of Kherson was closely focused Friday morning in a shelling assault by Russian forces making an attempt to advance, in keeping with native navy authorities.
Russian strikes on the southern metropolis killed two individuals and injured an extra 10, in keeping with the top of the Kherson area navy administration Oleksandr Prokudin.
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