Russia missile attack on Kyiv region injured two, damaged houses, Ukraine says

KYIV - Two people were injured and scores of residential and other buildings were damaged in a Russian missile attack on the Kyiv region overnight, the head of the region’s state administration said on June 23.

Mr Ruslan Kravchenko said on the Telegram messaging app that falling debris injured the two people, who did not require hospitalisation.

Debris also damaged six multi-storey residential buildings and more than 20 private houses, he added.

In addition, a petrol station, a pharmacy, an administrative building and three cars in the region were damaged.

Ukraine’s Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk said on June 23 that of three missiles launched by Russia, Ukraine’s air defence systems destroyed two over the Kyiv region.

In his statement on Telegram, Lieutenant-General Oleshchuk did not say what had happened to the third missile.

Kyiv, its surrounding region and several others across Ukraine were under air raid alerts for about an hour on the morning of June 23, starting at 4.50am local time (9.50am Singapore time).

Witnesses reported hearing several blasts in and around Kyiv at the time that sounded like air defence systems hitting air weapons.

Separately, three people, including two children, were killed in the Russian-annexed city of Sevastopol by a Ukrainian missile attack, the city’s Russian-installed governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said on Telegram on June 23.

He said about 100 people suffered shrapnel wounds of varying severity.

Russia’s defence ministry said that Ukraine had struck civilian infrastructure in the city on the Crimean peninsula with five Army Tactical Missile System projectiles supplied by the United States and equipped with cluster warheads.

Four of the missiles were shot down by air defence systems, while the warhead of the fifth missile exploded in mid-air, the defence ministry said. REUTERS