War in Ukraine: Apartment buildings hit in Kyiv, at least two dead – The capital is surrounded

Kyiv is being pounded at a time when the people of Ukraine are already counting 20 nightmarish days of war. Russian fire hit at least two residential areas in Kiev this morning, according to the Ukrainian First Aid Service. The first information they give speaks of at least two dead, at the time The battles around the Ukrainian capital, which the Russian army seeks to encircle, do not stop escalating.

A 15-storey apartment building hit at least two people living in the western district of Sviatosin.first aid services reported, while it also caused a large fire.

“Two lifeless bodies were found on the spot”, according to the same source, while 27 other occupants of the building were rescued.

First aid services also reported via Facebook that A nine-storey apartment building in the northwestern part of the Ukrainian capital, in the Podil district, was hit.

A fire broke out, which was quickly extinguished by firefighters. One person was taken to hospital, always according to the first aid services, which did not specify what kind of weapon hit the building.

The blast shattered almost all the windows of the property and everything around it, according to a French Agency journalist who went to the scene, as broadcast by the Athens News Agency. Several residents threw glasses and debris from the windows of their apartments.

In a separate statement, the first aid service said that a fire broke out in a house in the Osokorki district, in the southeastern part of the country. Kiev. According to the same sources, this blow did not cause any casualties.

At least three loud explosions were heard earlier today by journalists of the French Agency in the center of Kiev.

The intensity of the fighting around Kyiv has doubled in recent days. The Ukrainian capital is almost completely surrounded by Russian troops, twenty days after they invaded the country on February 24. More than half of the city’s 3 million inhabitants have fled since the start of the Russian offensive.

Several people were reported killed and injured in bombings in Kyiv on Monday.

Fighting has been raging for days between Russian and Ukrainian forces in the northwestern region of Kiev.

Mariupol: 2,357 civilians have been killed

In the meantime its municipal authority Mariupola strategic port in southeastern Ukraine, said earlier today that 2,357 civilians had been killed since the start of the Russian offensive.

The city, which had some 400,000 permanent residents before the invasion began, has been under siege by Russian troops for days and has been cut off from the rest of the country. Local authorities are talking about many air raids from the Sea of ​​Azov. Moscow says it only hits military targets.

Petro Andriuschenko, a city councilor, described the situation in the city as “inhumane”, with “no food, no water, no electricity, no heating”, adding that he feared the death toll could rise to 20,000 as the conflict escalated. intensify.