Ukraine: Russian missile attacks on Kiev repelled
06:30 | Anti-aircraft systems repelled Russian missile attacks on Kiev and the surrounding area during the night between Sunday and Monday, local Ukrainian authorities said. Earlier, emergency services across Ukraine warned of airstrikes.
“Air-raid defenses are at work,” Kyiv’s regional administration said on messaging app Telegram, after the sound of explosions was reported in the region. The council added: ‘Keep calm! Stay in the bomb shelters until the air raid sirens stop!’
The Kyiv city government later confirmed on Telegram that all missiles fired at the city were destroyed. “According to (preliminary) information, there were no civilian casualties and no destruction of housing structures or infrastructure was identified.”
Air defense systems have also been called upon to protect the region around the capital from Russian missiles. In total, the Ukrainian air defense managed to destroy fifteen of the eighteen missiles fired by Russia on Monday morning, the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine wrote in Telegram.
This was the state of affairs on Sunday 30 April
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Pope francesco he said the Vatican is involved in a peacekeeping mission to try to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
It Russian vacuumr replaced his top general in charge of logistics after days of rumors of Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev’s resignation.
Ukraine he says his troops are holding parts of the eastern town of Bachmoet.
Four people were killed by one night Ukrainian attack in the Russian border village of Suzemka, the governor of Russia’s western Bryansk region said on Sunday.
Russian commanders it is likely that they have begun “punishing disciplinary infractions by confining offending troops in ‘Zindan’, makeshift cells made up of holes in the ground covered by a metal grid,” the UK’s defense ministry said.
THE Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky he said he had a “long and meaningful” phone conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.
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