A few days after a deadly Ukrainian attack against a high school in a region occupied by Russia for which Vladimir Putin had promised a military response, Russian bombings hit kyiv and its region this Sunday, May 24. These bombings left four dead and more than 60 injured, according to local authorities. The death toll from nighttime bombings rose to two dead and 56 injured in the hard-hit capital, kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram. Two people were also killed in the capital region and nine were injured, including a child “who is not even a year old,” said the head of the regional administration, Mykola Kalashnyk.
Missiles de portée intermédiaire Orechnik
Russia targeted Ukraine with 600 drones and 90 missiles, the Ukrainian air force said. In total, the Ukrainian Air Force detected “690 air attack devices – 90 missiles and 600 drones of various types”, it indicated this Sunday on Telegram, including “an intermediate-range ballistic missile”, specifying that 55 missiles and 549 drones were intercepted.
La Russie a utilisé un missile de portée intermédiaire Orechnik, à capacité nucléaire, a confirmé Volodymyr Zelensky.
“Three Russian missiles hit a water infrastructure, a market burned, dozens of residential buildings damaged, several ordinary schools, and he (Russian President Vladimir Putin) launched his Orechnik against Bila Tserkva. They are really crazy,” the Ukrainian president said in a message on Telegram. The Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andriï Sybigan, accused Moscow of having carried out “one of the biggest terrorist attacks on Kiev”.
A little later in the morning, the Russian Defense Ministry also confirmed having used Orechnik missiles, intermediate range and nuclear capable, claiming to have only targeted military targets. “In response to the terrorist attacks of Ukraine against civilian infrastructure on the territory of Russia, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out a massive strike using Orechnik + ballistic missiles, Iskander aeroballistic missiles, Kinjal hypersonic aeroballistic missiles and ISK missiles. Tsirkon cruise, as well as cruise missiles and drones, the ministry said.
Une école touchée
According to the mayor of kyiv, a school was hit in the Shevchenkivsky district, and a strike “nearby” another school resulted in debris blocking the entrance to a shelter where refugees from the inhabitants.
An air alert has been issued across Ukraine. The “massive” attack against the capital mobilizes “missiles of various types and drones,” the Ukrainian army said. In central Ukraine, Russian bombings left at least seven injured in the Dnipropetrovsk region and eleven in Cherkasy, according to regional authorities.
Vladimir Putin had promised a military response after a Ukrainian drone strike in the night from Thursday to Friday on educational buildings in Starobilsk, in the Ukrainian region of Lugansk occupied by Moscow, which left at least 18 dead and more than 40 injured. kyiv denied targeting civilian targets and claimed to have struck a Russian drone unit stationed in the region.
