One person was killed and two others injured today, Thursday, in a Russian missile strike on an industrial facility in the city of Odessa in southern Ukraine. Meanwhile, falling debris during an air raid caused two fires in the eastern outskirts of Kyiv. The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, announced on Telegram that a fire broke out in a garage in the Darnytsia district of the capital, and debris fell in the Dnipro area of Kyiv, with no casualties reported from these incidents.
For his part, the head of the Kyiv Military Administration, Serhiy Popko, stated that "a fire broke out in non-residential buildings in the Desnyansky district east of the capital," noting that "Kyiv was attacked with cruise missiles, and air defenses shot them all down." Air raid alerts were issued across Ukraine early this Thursday morning, with the military warning of potential Russian missile strikes in wide areas extending from Kyiv to the central and southern regions.
An hour after the alerts were issued, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' channel on Telegram urged residents of the capital to stay in shelters. Alerts were also issued for several other areas, including Zhytomyr to the west of the capital, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, and Dnipropetrovsk in central Ukraine. A witness in Kyiv reported hearing the sound of anti-aircraft units. There are also reports of explosions in other major cities, although the source has not been verified, according to Reuters.
