kyiv was the target of an air attack this Saturday, January 14. The small town of Soledar is “under the control” of Ukraine, according to a Ukrainian official.
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LRUSSIA fired missiles at key infrastructure in kyiv and other parts of Ukraine on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said, while uncertainty remains over the fate of Soledar (east) which Moscow claims to have taken control of after a fierce battle. Several explosions sounded in the morning in kyiv, AFP journalists found, with Ukrainian officials saying strikes had targeted key infrastructure in the capital.
“A missile attack on critical infrastructure” is underway in Kyiv, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency Kyrylo Tymoshenko said on Telegram while the city’s mayor Vitali Klitschko reported explosions in the Dniprovskiy district, calling on residents to “stay in the shelters”. The administrative services of the capital indicated that one of the infrastructures of the city had been reached. Fragments of a missile fell in the Golosiivsky district, without causing any injuries, Vitali Klitschko said.
Fighting continues in Soledar, Kharkiv and Lviv
The small town of Soledar in eastern Ukraine, at the center of a fierce battle with Russian forces and which Moscow claims to have taken, is still “under Ukrainian control”, the governor of the region of Ukraine said on Saturday. Donetsk, Pavlo Kyrylenko. “Soledar is under the control of the Ukrainian authorities, our forces have control of it,” he said, adding that this locality and the nearby town of Bakhmout were the “hottest” points on the front.
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Russian strikes also targeted strategic Ukrainian energy infrastructure in Kharkiv and Lviv, Ukrainian officials said. “Emergency power cuts have been implemented” after two strikes against infrastructure, Kharkiv region governor Oleg Sinegoubov said. In Lviv, authorities have warned of interruptions in water and electricity supplies.