At least four people dead following shelling in Kyiv, city authorities say – National
Shelling hit residential homes and a buying district in Kyiv‘s Podil district late on Sunday, killing no less than 4 folks, metropolis authorities stated.
“In keeping with the data now we have in the intervening time, a number of houses and one of many buying facilities [were hit],” metropolis mayor Vitali Klitschko stated on his Telegram channel.
He stated rescue groups have been placing out a big fireplace on the buying heart, whereas different particulars are nonetheless to be confirmed. The Kyiv division of the state emergency service stated 4 folks had been killed.
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Reuters was not instantly in a position to confirm the studies on the bottom.
Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine has killed 1000’s of individuals, displaced greater than 3 million and raised fears of a wider confrontation between Russia and the US.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says the “particular army operation,” which began on Feb. 24, is aimed toward disarming Ukraine and rooting out harmful nationalists.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly and Ron Popeski; Enhancing by Daniel Wallis & Shri Navaratnam)