“The enemy is attacking the capital with missiles. Please, stay in safe places!”, reported the head of the military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, via social media during the early hours of this Sunday (local time) before the first blast that caused panic among the inhabitants of Kyiv. So far, no fatalities or injuries have been reported.
Journalists in the city reported at least five explosions, after authorities warned about the attack. Air raid sirens began to sound minutes after the first detonation, according to witnesses.
“In the Dnipro district, we are recording the consequences of the attack. A non-residential civil building was damaged in the Svyatoshyn district as a result of the attack. We are clarifying the details,” added Tkachenko in another message.
On July 8, Russian troops attacked the Svyatoshynskyi and Desnyanskyi districts in Kyiv using drones and missiles. As a result, three people were killed and 16 were injured.
Amidst the Kremlin’s almost daily attacks, Ukraine will create a “long-range strike” command within its armed forces, as announced by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at a time when Kyiv’s campaign against Russian energy and logistics infrastructure has forced Moscow to ban diesel exports and restrict maritime transport near the Sea of Azov, which connects to the Black Sea.
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For months, Ukrainian attack drones have been striking key energy infrastructure thousands of kilometers inside Russia, in a strategy that Kyiv presents as long-range sanctions against the main financier of the Russian state budget. In recent weeks, Ukraine has reported almost daily attacks, and authorities insist that they consider it legitimate to take the war into Russian territory, more than four years after the start of the full-scale invasion.
“Today I signed a decree establishing a special command within the Armed Forces, a command intended to have a long-term and, in effect, global impact on Russia in response to this war,” announced Zelensky in his evening message to the nation.
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It should be stressed that at least 265 civilians were killed and 1,816 people were injured in Ukraine during June due to attacks launched by the Kremlin, according to what the United Nations reported on Thursday. This figure constitutes the highest combined number of civilian casualties in a single month since the early stages of the full-scale invasion initiated by Moscow in February 2022.
The warning was presented to the Security Council by the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, who noted that data from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) shows a sustained increase in the impact of the war on the civilian population.
