Ukraine announced today that its forces are in control of “half” of Sheverodonetsk, a key city in its eastern regions and currently the scene of heavy fighting in the vast Donbass region.
“Our armed forces have cleared half of Sheverodonetsk of Russian troops there,” Lugansk regional governor Sergei Gaidai said in a social media interview. “Half the city is under the control of our defenders,” he added.
Russia, meanwhile, struck Kyiv today with cruise missiles fired from the Caspian Sea. In this first attack on the Ukrainian capital in weeks, a railway repair facility was hit, the Ukrainian armed forces and the head of the country’s railways announced.
Black smoke rose in the sky over the eastern suburbs of Kiev. At least one person was taken to hospital, although no deaths were reported, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense shot down a Russian missile around 6 p.m. (local time and Greek time), announced the armed forces.
A Russian missile, possibly aimed at Kyiv, flew extremely low over a large nuclear power plant in the southern Mykolaiv region, Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear energy company Energoatom told the Telegram. He later posted a video that seemed to confirm the report. Reuters was unable to confirm the images from an independent source.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its missiles destroyed T-72 tanks and armored vehicles supplied to Ukraine by Eastern European countries and were at a railway repair facility in Kyiv.
With information from Reuters and AFP
Source: Capital
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