Intense Russian shelling rocks Kyiv at dawn, leaving dead and wounded
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In a new and sudden escalation, Russian forces launched a heavy aerial attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early Thursday, using missiles and drones, resulting in the death of two people and injuring more than 52 others, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko confirmed that the attack targeted wide areas of the capital, with Sviatoshynskyi and Solomianskyi being the most affected.
He explained in a post on Telegram: "In total, by half past six in the morning Kyiv time, one person was killed and more than 20 were injured," adding that one missile hit a residential building, causing the destruction of a significant part of it, where two people were rescued alive from under the rubble.
Meanwhile, the military commander in Kyiv, Timur Tkatshenko, stated that the shelling targeted about ten areas in the city, including an educational institution, noting that the number of wounded rose to 27 people, with the victim being a woman.
In a striking development, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned that the intensity of the explosions led to the shattering of glass in the pediatric unit of a hospital, without any injuries reported there.
The bloody attack prompted Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sebiha to call for "exerting maximum pressure" on Moscow to compel it to stop the war, considering that international silence exacerbates the suffering of civilians.
On the other hand, the Russian army announced today the "liberation" of the strategic city of Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, a vital city for Ukrainian military concentration, which witnessed fierce battles for several months.
A statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the forces "managed to take full control of the city," in a military advance considered the most significant since the beginning of the current summer.
It is worth mentioning that the new escalation comes at a time when warnings of the war's expansion are increasing, amid the decline of diplomatic efforts and the complexity of the field scene, heralding more violence and suffering for civilians.
