KYIV, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Russian warplanes fired 19 long-range missiles at targets in Ukraine on Friday morning, killing one civilian, wounding eight others and damaging an industrial facility and power lines, officials said Ukrainians.
One person was killed and eight others injured in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, Governor Serhiy Lysak said on the Telegram messaging app.
“These are men aged 32 to 66. Two of them are recovering at home. The others are in hospital,” he added, specifying that two injured people are still in a hospital. bad state.
Air defenses shot down 14 missiles over the Kyiv region and the Dnipropetrovsk region, air force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said in televised comments.
The strike damaged power lines, an unnamed industrial facility and more than 20 houses in the towns of Dnipro and Ternivka, the villages of Yuryivska and Mejyritch, Serhiy Lysak said.
Russia used seven Tu-95 bombers to launch missiles at different regions of the country, the Air Force said in a statement.
Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said the Ukrainian capital was targeted by the attack, but all the missiles were shot down by air defenses as they approached.
Missile debris damaged private residences in several localities in the Kyiv region, shattering windows and destroying some walls, Governor Ruslan Kravchenko said.
Air alerts sounded around 7:00 a.m. and lasted for more than two hours. (Reporting Olena Harmash and Yuliia Dysa; writing by Tom Balmforth; French version Augustin Turpin, editing by Kate Entringer)
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