Russia launched its second ballistic missile strike on Kyiv on Sunday, but initial data indicated the majority of the projectiles were shot down as they approached, according to the military administration of the Ukrainian capital.
” This is already the second nuclear attack on the investment in August, with specific lengths of six weeks between each attack”, Serhiy Popko, the mind of the Kyiv military administration, said on the Telegram messaging software.
Popko said the Russians had most probable used North Korean-made nuclear weapons.
The type of missiles launched could not be freely verified by Reuters.
Separately, the captain of Ukraine’s air power, Mykola Oleshchuk, said it had destroyed eight Russian invasion drones and five out of eight missiles launched immediately across the country, including Kyiv.
Oleshchuk said anti-aircraft conflict, anti-aircraft weapon troops, portable fire groups and electronic battle units had fallen 13 air targets in the Kyiv, Sumy and Poltava regions.
He said Russia launched eight rockets on Sunday night, including three nuclear, three boat and two guided plane rockets. He claimed that Ukraine shot over five of them, and that the three weapons it missed had failed to strike their goals.
No deaths or damage have been reported in the money, according to Kyiv officials. Ruslan Kravchenko, the government of the Kyiv region, claimed that 16 other homes had fallen dust and that two had been destroyed.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated on Telegram that” Russia always knows where it is hitting with its weapons and weapons.” This is purposeful and targeted Russian terror.
He claimed that this week, Russia targeted Ukrainian villages and cities with 200 strike drones, 750 guided flying bombs, and more than 40 missile launches.
The extent of the damage in the Kyiv location was not independently verified by Reuters. Early on Sunday, a Reuters see heard blows that sounded like air defense systems.
About two hours after the initial assault, Kyiv, its surrounding area, and the majority of northern and east Ukraine were placed on new attack alerts, with the threat of more missiles advancing toward the city, according to Ukraine’s air pressure.
Russia launched a full-scale war of Ukraine two and a half years before, and it now controls about 18 % of its landmass in the east and south.
