Kiev: Russia fired more than 20 cruise missiles and two drones into Ukraine’s capital Kiev and other parts of it in the early hours of Friday, killing at least 12 people. Most of these people died in two missile attacks on a residential building in central Ukraine. Air raid sirens sounded around the capital for the first time in nearly two months, according to the Kiev city administration, and Ukraine’s air force intercepted 11 cruise missiles and two drones over Kiev. The nine-storey residential building was attacked in the city of Uman, which is located about 215 kilometers south of Kiev.
Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klemenko said that 10 people died in the attack. According to the National Police of Ukraine, 17 people were injured and three children were pulled from the rubble. The governor of the eastern city of Dnipro, Serhiy Lysak, said a 31-year-old woman and her two-year-old daughter were killed in an attack in the city. Four other people have also been injured.
According to the Kiev city administration, Kiev’s anti-aircraft system had been activated. At about four o’clock in the morning, the ‘siren’ warning about the attacks started ringing. All this went on for about two hours. The Ukrainian capital was attacked for the first time since March 9. Significantly, Russia attacked Ukraine in February last year.
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