Ukrainian Chief of Staff Oleksii Gromov announced on Thursday (28) that several rockets partially destroyed a military base near Kyiv.
“At around 05:00 (23:00 Brazil time the previous day), the enemy launched an attack by firing six Kalibr cruise missiles on a military unit in Lioutij, Kyiv region,” Gromov told reporters.
One of the six missiles was shot down by the Ukrainian air defense, while a building at the base was destroyed and the other two damaged. The rockets were launched from Crimea, a peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014.
Gromov said there were several “wounded” in the Ukrainian army, with more rocket launchers hitting the Cherniguiv region in northern Ukraine than neighboring Moscow ally Belarus.
Russian forces continue to advance near Siversk and Bakhmut in the Donbass, an industrial area Moscow wants to conquer. Gromov said the situation was “difficult but completely under control”.
He added that in the occupied Kherson region in the south of the country, where Ukrainian troops are counterattacking, three towns have been liberated from Russian hands in the past two weeks.
On Thursday, other Ukrainian officials reported Russian bombings in several areas.
“It’s a busy morning. Once again, we are experiencing missile terror,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Telegram, telling Kiev that he will not “give up and put down his weapons.”
Governor Valentin Reznichenko also announced on Telegram that at least one person was killed and two others injured in an attack in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Likewise, the top leader of the Mykolaiv region in the south of the country reported the explosion of a “large” missile bomb that destroyed a school and injured at least one citizen.
The mayor of Kharkov, the country’s second city in the northeast, spoke of two attacks with S-300 missiles that caused the fires.
source: Noticias
[author_name]
