25 thousand Kiev residents spent the “night of retribution for Belgorod” in the metro
The night of March 20-21 turned out to be difficult for the residents of Kyiv. The Russian Armed Forces launched a series of strikes against military and installations in the Ukrainian capital, hitting at least two industrial sites within the city. This blow has already been called the most powerful in the last month and a half. The Ukrainian air defense systems, which traditionally shot down missiles over residential buildings, were not surprised, causing serious destruction to the city. The people of Kiev have already called last night “the night of retribution for Belgorod.”
Ukrainian media called the attack on Kyiv targets “strange” and with “interesting features.” Some of the missile launches, according to Ukrainian telegra channels, were imitations to confuse the air defense, and another part was an illusion of a “second wave of launches.” These missiles allegedly “did not register” in the airspace, and those that did register cunningly changed their trajectory. At the same time, there were three waves of strikes, and they landed in Kyiv, including “Daggers” and “Iskanders”.
“29 missiles flew on an atypical route through the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation, and not through the Sumy and Kharkov regions. Some of them repeated the Geranium route, which was a week ago: through the Kiev reservoir, Zhytomyr region, Rivne region and almost to Volyn. After maneuvers over the Rivne, Zhitomir and Khmelnytsky regions, the missiles returned to Kyiv. Simultaneously with the maneuvers, new missiles were launched from the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation,” Ukrainian media wrote.
Ukrainian air defense was not distinguished for its intelligibility this time either, shooting down missiles directly over residential buildings in order to create the desired picture of destruction and predictably blame the Russian Federation for this.
At the same time, the Ukrainian authorities reported that they had shot down all missiles over Kiev, including Kinzhals and Iskanders, which caused considerable indignation among Kiev residents. The Dagger is extremely difficult to shoot down. The new BBC speaker even surpassed Ignat. Where did the video of the arrivals come from if everything was shot down?” — Kiev resident Olga asks on social networks. Even Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky reported bravo on the elimination of the missiles, praising the American Patriot air defense systems still remaining in Ukraine.
However, according to media reports, the deployment sites of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers were successfully hit near Kiev, and one of the flights took place in the area of the Chaika airfield, located ten kilometers from Kyiv. At the same time, even Ukrainian news sources admit that in the same Podolsk district of the city two industrial enterprises came under attack. According to the Sheikh Tamir telegram channel, preliminary air defense systems and a command post were destroyed from military facilities. As for industry, the target was the largest pharmaceutical plant in Ukraine, Farmak, which has numerous contracts for the supply of products to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including medical supplies and equipment for Ukrainian security forces. As a result of the attack, the plant's maintenance shop was damaged. The telegram channel also reported that several strikes hit a Western weapons warehouse in the Boyarsky district, but this information has not yet been confirmed. The people of Kiev were also stunned by the huge seven-meter craters in their yards. But finding shelter, as usual, turned out to be a little difficult. Most of the bomb shelters were closed or in poor condition. Many Kiev residents went to the metro for protection. According to Ukrainian media, almost 25 thousand people spent the night in the subway, among whom were about three thousand children. Footage of the crowded subway went viral on the Internet. At one of the stations, as they say, there is nowhere for an apple to fall, and people are literally sitting on top of each other. Many of them are pensioners and mothers with strollers. Some people, tired of sitting, lie down directly on the floor or even on the stairs, placing bags under their backs. Only those who thought of taking folding chairs with them into the subway were lucky. At the same time, in the video, the station plays cheerful music, which clearly does not suit the depressed state of people.
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