An official from Ukraine said the attack was carried out using Russia’s hypersonic Kinzhal missiles and Iskander/KN-23 ballistic missiles. At least one person is reported to have been killed and seven injured following a Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s capital.
According to Serhiy Popko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, the attack in the morning damaged buildings across the city and ignited fires in some. According to Popko, Russia launched eight missiles on Kyiv while using hypersonic Kinzhal missiles and Iskander/KN-23 ballistic missiles.
Air defenses are working in Kyiv after a missile attack Russia said was in “response” to Ukrainian strikes this week using Western missiles on a chemical plant in southern Russia, according to the city’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
In response to the actions of the Kyiv regime, with support from its Western patrons, a joint strike was launched today using long-range precision weapons,” Russia’s defense ministry said in a statement.
Media reports out of Ukraine, citing reports on the ground, have indicated that a series of powerful blasts were heard through Kyiv, and smoke can reportedly be seen rising over portions of the town. A ballistic missile from the north! The Ukrainian Air Force warned in a Telegram message.
Local media outlet the Kyiv Independent reported several explosions at about 7 a.m. (05:00 GMT). It quoted Klitschko as saying that “multiple cars were on fire in the Holosiivskyi district of the city due to the falling debris from a missile.”
Fires also raged in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts and at a construction site in the Dnipro district. The city mayor reported at least seven people wounded, four of whom were hospitalized.
The Ukrainian Air Force said earlier Friday that a MiG-31 Russian fighter jet, which can carry hypersonic missiles, had been spotted taking off from a Russian airbase, the Kyiv Independent reported before the air raid. Ukraine’s Air Force later on Friday said it downed five ballistic missiles and 40 drones, while another 20 drones did not reach their targets.
