“Russia fired the largest number of ballistic missiles of the entire war - around 45 - in a brutal terrorist attack on the Ukrainian capital,” he writes on X.
Sybiha accuses the “coward in Moscow”, i.e. Russian leader Vladimir Putin, of “a war on civilians”.
A number of the missiles were of the Tsirkon type, a hypermodern missile that can travel nine times the speed of sound.
There are reports of a few deaths and a number of injuries, but the casualties are limited by the fact that Kyiv residents frantically seek shelter when the air raid sirens go off.
“We are happy that we are still alive,” Nadija Belej told The Kyiv Independent .
She and her daughter Eleonora live in the Lukjanivska district, which is often attacked by Russia. But this time it was worse.
“It was the worst night of my life,” says Eleonora after coming out of the shelter.
In the morning, fires that broke out in residential buildings and in a supermarket in connection with the Russian attacks were fought, according to Vitaliy Klychko, the mayor of Kyiv.
The capital is now particularly vulnerable, as Ukraine is suffering from a severe shortage of American Patriot air defense missiles that are good at stopping incoming Russian ballistic missiles. The US has said it will allow Ukraine to license Patriot production, but it is unclear when that could start.
