Kyiv shoots down Russian missiles

Kyiv says its forces shot down all missiles launched by Russia in a fresh wave of day time attacks, which rocked central districts of the Ukrainian capital city.
Russian overnight strikes hit a military facility in the region of Khmelnytsky in western Ukraine, the local administration said on Monday in a rare admission of military targets being struck.
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Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska has shared a video on Twitter of children in the Ukrainian capital city, running for shelters as Russian missiles attacked Kyiv for the sixteenth time.

“Anxiety once again,” she said in a tweet.

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In a Telegram statement, Lysak said shelling in Dnipro’s Synelnykove district led to the death of one woman as well as the injury of an 11-year-old child and eight other people.

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Olexander Scherba, Ukraine’s former ambassador to Austria and current ambassador for strategic communications at the foreign affairs ministry, says he was at his office when Russian missiles attacked Kyiv.

In a tweet, he said the explosion “felt real close, seconds after the siren started wailing. Around 16 kabooms. Yet, no destruction in Kyiv visible. Seems all missiles were destroyed.”