The mayor of Kyiv said multiple blasts hit the center of the war-torn nation early Monday, without giving further details.
What happened: “Several explosions in Shevchenskivskyi district – in the center of the capital” Vitaly Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app, adding “details later.”
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Corresponding Kyiv independent At least four explosions were reportedly heard, with smoke billowing from an area in the city center. Air alert has been declared in the city and surrounding region.
�Explosions reported in Kyiv.
At least four explosions were heard in the city center in the early morning of October 10.
Smoke was reportedly billowing from a spot in the city center.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) October 10, 2022
Anton Gerashchenko, A senior Ukrainian adviser to the interior minister said on his Telegram account this morning that a Russian missile had reportedly landed on a street in Kyiv near the Hrushevsky memorial, alongside images said to be from the scene.
“Cars are on fire and windows are broken in houses. There are dead,” said the Ukrainian MP Oleksi Goncharenko tweeted this morning, adding that a missile fell “right into the center of the city.”
That came after Wladimir Putinmouthpiece of the , Vice-Chairman of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedevsaid Russia should kill the “terrorists”. responsible for Attack on the bridge between Crimea and Russia.
“Russia can only respond to this crime by killing terrorists directly, as is customary elsewhere in the world. That’s what Russian citizens expect,” Medvedev was quoted as saying by the state news agency TASS.
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