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A five-storey building in the city of Kryvyi Rih was said to be among the civilian targets bombed in Russia’s latest air assault on Ukraine.
An “intensive missile attack” by Russia hit several civilian buildings, including a five-story apartment building, in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, causing deaths, injuries and severe damage to infrastructure, according to local officials.
“There are dead and injured,” Serhiy Leshak, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region where Kryvyi Rih is located, said on messaging app Telegram early Tuesday morning.
“Intensified missile attack on Kryvyi Rih,” he said.
Lesak posted a picture of a five-story apartment building with all windows blown out and smoke billowing from some.
Kryvyi Rih is the birthplace of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The city was hit by a Russian missile in December, leaving three dead and at least 13 wounded.
The city’s mayor, Oleksandr Vilkol, said earlier on Tuesday that people were likely trapped under the rubble of buildings hit by the latest attack.
Video footage circulating on social media said to show the Kryvyi Rih attack showed destroyed apartments, rubble and fires in other areas.
Military officials said the capital, Kyiv, was also hit by missiles and drones early Tuesday, but air defense systems destroyed all objects heading toward the city.
“According to preliminary reports, the enemy used Kh-101/555 cruise missiles,” said the Kiev city military department.
“The forces and means of air defense detected all enemy targets in the airspace around Kiev and they were successfully destroyed by the forces and means of air defense,” the department said, adding that there was no immediate information about any casualties or damage.
Ukraine’s top military command said the air force had destroyed 10 of the 14 cruise missiles Russia fired at Ukraine on Tuesday and one of four Iranian-made drones.
It was not immediately clear how many missiles hit Kryvyi Rih and where the drones launched by Russia hit their targets.
The city’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov, said a drone had bombed civilian infrastructure in Kharkiv.
“According to preliminary reports, a utility company in the Kyivskyi district was damaged, as well as a warehouse in the Saltivskyi district. A fire broke out as a result of the explosion in the latter.”
The latest wave of air strikes comes as Ukraine claims to have recaptured several villages and made headway in its counter-offensive against Russian forces.
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