Russian attack on Kyiv in Ukraine kills at least four | News of the Russian-Ukrainian war

Two people were killed in the capital and two in the Kyiv region where 40 places were destroyed.

Russia has hit Kyiv and surrounding areas with heavy missile and drone strikes, killing four people and injuring more than 60, Ukrainian officials said, as Moscow threatened to retaliate over insurgency in eastern Ukraine controlled by Russia.

The explosion began at 1 a.m. Sunday (22:00 GMT Saturday) after a warning by the Ukrainian military that Russia might launch a hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile.

The attack included 600 drones and 90 air-, sea- and surface-to-ground missiles, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Ukraine’s military destroyed and intercepted 549 drones and 55 missiles, and 19 missiles failed to reach targets, the military said.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said two people were killed in the capital and 56 were injured. The head of the region around Kyiv said two people were also killed there and nine were injured.

Damage was recorded in 40 places in several districts of the capital, including residential buildings, head of the Kyiv military administration Tymur Tkachenko said in a Telegraph post.

“The capital has been heavily bombed by artillery,” he said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia used the Oreshnik missile, which is difficult to intercept, in the bombing.

Ukrainian officials and the US embassy had earlier warned of an attack in Kyiv after Russia said it would “punish” those responsible for the deadly attacks in eastern Ukraine under its control, Moscow said. hit the college dorm and killed at least 18 people.

Launched overnight from Thursday to Friday, the drone salvo – One of the deadliest demonstrations in Ukraine in months – also injured 42 people in Starobilsk in the Luhansk region, trapping people under the rubble.

In Kyivofficials reported damage to offices, shops and the foyer of the metro station. In the city’s Independence Square, the post office was destroyed.

Russia had already attacked Ukraine twice with the Oreshnik, a missile that Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted was impossible to stop because of its speed of more than 10 speed of sound.