Ukrainian air defenses shot down about 20 missiles heading toward kyiv on the night of Sunday 1 to Monday 2 September, local authorities announced, in an attack that left two people injured. “Russian forces carried out a new missile strike on Kiev. It combined cruise missiles and ballistic missiles,” the Ukrainian capital’s civil and military administration said on Telegram.
Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said two adults were injured and four cars caught fire after falling debris. In two other districts of the capital, a boiler room fire was quickly extinguished, while another fire affected a business, according to the mayor.
One injured in the Belgorod region, according to Russian authorities
According to the civil and military administration of the Ukrainian capital, the cruise missiles were fired from strategic bombers flying in the Russian region of Saratov and after having carried out “complex maneuvers”, arrived in the direction of kyiv from the south. “The air defense forces destroyed in the airspace of the capital more than ten cruise missiles and about ten ballistic missiles, and a drone,” said this source.
Ukraine, soldiers exhausted by a conflict that seems interminable
In the city of Sumy, in the northeast of the country, a social and psychological support center for children and an orphanage were also hit Sunday evening by a Russian missile, injuring 13 people, including four minors, according to the mayor of the city.
On the Russian side, the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reported a Ukrainian airstrike during the night which left one person injured and damaged, among other things, a business and infrastructure in the city of Belgorod.
This article is originally published on francetvinfo.fr
