City of Kursk reports injuries
Ukraine mourns deaths in rocket attack near Kyiv
11.08.2024, 07:17
The people of Kiev have had another restless night. According to the air defense, Russia is again firing rockets at the capital region. There are dead and injured. Russia also reports casualties on its territory.
According to Ukrainian sources, the Kiev region has once again been the target of a Russian missile attack. As a result, a 35-year-old man and his four-year-old son were killed in a suburb of Kiev, the state rescue service reported. Three other people were seriously injured.
Rocket parts fell on private homes in Brovary, east of Kiev, on Saturday evening, the helpers reported on Telegram. Father and son were trapped under the rubble of a building. The information could not be independently verified.
Several explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital late on Saturday evening – including in the center of Kiev. The Ukrainian Air Force announced on the online channel Telegram that two Russian missiles were heading for the capital. According to an AFP reporter, at least two flashes of lightning were seen in the night sky. The Kiev military administration announced on Telegram that the city’s air defense systems had been activated to repel the attacks. No casualties or damage were initially reported there.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, other Ukrainian regions were affected by Russian air strikes in addition to Kiev. Drone attacks were reported in five other regions, the Air Force said. Russia launches massive drone and missile attacks on cities in Ukraine almost every night. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been urging allies for weeks to quickly deliver new air defense systems.
In Ukraine, renewed Russian air strikes were feared in response to the advance of the Ukrainian army in the western Russian border region of Kursk. As a result, the Ukrainian authorities said they evacuated 20,000 people from the Sumy region bordering Kursk.
“The war has come to us”
Meanwhile, the governor of the western Russian border region of Kursk reported 13 people injured in the city of Kursk during the night as a result of a Ukrainian air strike. Two of them were seriously injured, said Alexei Smirnov. The residents were injured when debris from a fired Ukrainian missile fell on a building. The information could not be independently verified.
In view of the Ukrainian advance in the Kursk region, the authorities there say they have brought more than 76,000 people to safety. Additional trains were deployed to the capital Moscow for the refugees, and aid supplies were also brought to the border region. “The war has come to us,” said one woman upon her arrival at the train station in Moscow.
The Russian authorities had previously announced the start of anti-terrorist operations in the three border regions of Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk. This gives the security forces and army extensive powers. Citizens’ freedom of movement is restricted, vehicles can be confiscated, telephone conversations can be tapped and certain areas can be closed to access. The Russian state anti-terrorism committee said on Friday that Ukraine had launched an “unprecedented attempt to destabilize the situation in a number of regions in our country”.