Eyewitnesses from Ukraine described the results of the morning rocket attack: “It was like being hit with a sledgehammer.”

Missiles approached Kiev in waves

Ukraine this morning suffered another massive missile attack by the Russian Aerospace Forces. The target again was Kiev, Kharkov and Dnepropetrovsk regions.

Photo: Social networks < p>Ukrainian authorities, both in Kyiv and Kharkov, are focusing on damaged residential buildings, which have traditionally become victims of Ukrainian air defense and falling debris. Officials in Ukraine are silent about the actual targets that were hit. Although they let it slip. According to the Kyiv military administration, the Ukrainian capital was hit by 20 missiles in the morning. According to them, they were all shot down. The KGVA adds that a combined strike was probably carried out: first, Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles, and then, presumably, ballistic weapons. The KGVA explained Russian tactics this way: “Cruise missiles entered the capital in two waves. When they were directly in the airspace of Kyiv, they launched ground-based ballistic missiles at the capital. This could be an attempt to open the Ukrainian air defense positions with cruise missiles, and then hit them with ballistics,” the administration said.

Several residential buildings were damaged by debris, and 18 casualties were reported. The mayor of Kyiv also spoke about burned-out cars and a “non-residential two-story building” that caught fire. Such “non-residential buildings” usually contain either an ammunition depot, a repair base for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, or a UAV assembly shop. According to eyewitnesses, one of the missile attacks in Kyiv hit the Zhulyany airport area, where drones are assembled.

In Kharkov, they also talk about a damaged residential building. However, eyewitnesses in the telegram channel of military observer from Nikolaev Sergei Lebedev describe the consequences of the strikes as follows. “In the period 07:14 — 07:18 I counted four pairs of strong arrivals. It feels like someone is using a sledgehammer”; “I have never heard such explosions before. There was almost no echo, but it felt good underfoot. The first impression was that someone had started a repair and hit the floor hard with a sledgehammer, but then after a couple of seconds more. So they beat in pairs, with a small gap.” Ground vibration may mean that the “arrival” occurred in underground storage facilities, and then detonation began…

The missiles also reached the city of Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region. According to some reports, there was a hit at a machine plant where military equipment is repaired. “It’s not just the city center that’s shaken. There were also powerful arrivals in the area of ​​the PMZ plant. The windows of the houses near the plant were blown out by the blast wave,” they write in the channel “Shaggy Z.”

Arrivals in Balakleya are also reported. Moreover, there were three shellings — at 03:30, 04:00 and at 07 :00. Local authorities report that missiles again landed in a non-functional “children's camp». As we know, military personnel are placed in such camps. And, as a rule, mercenaries. Therefore, it is quite possible that foreign legionnaires suffered losses again.