The case is up to date.
– The Russians carried out a mass launch of Kh-101 missiles from Tu-95 aircraft. Targets in Ukraine are not known, says the head of the military administration in the city of Kryvyi Rih, Oleksandr Vilkul, according to Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform.
A witness told Reuters news agency that two explosions were heard in Kiev and smoke was rising over the city.
They write that explosions have also been reported in several other places in Ukraine.
Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko writes in Telegram that two residential buildings were reportedly hit by the attack.
– According to preliminary information, two residential buildings were hit in the Pechersk district. Several missiles were shot down by the Air Force over Kiev. Rescuers are on site, he writes.
He later writes that another multi-story building was hit in the same neighborhood.
Flight alerts are triggered in all parts of the country except Crimea, the Ukrainian military reports on Telegram.
The news of the attacks comes hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke via video to G20 leaders meeting in Bali.
– Russia responds to Zelenskyi’s speech at the G20 meeting with new missile attacks. Does anyone seriously believe that the Kremlin really wants peace? writes the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andrii Yermak on Twitter.
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– The only thing they’re capable of
Former Norwegian defense chief General Sverre Diesen told TV 2 on Tuesday that Russia could conceivably use this type of attack against Ukraine to a greater extent in the future:
– Not because they have any hope of it working. But that’s probably the only thing they’re capable of, she says.
– They do so in the hope that the bombings, coupled with high energy prices, will make Westerners lose the will to support the Ukrainians, he continues.
Ukrainians actually depend on the West as a “bank and arsenal” for their forces, he says. But if the West continues to support him, he believes Ukraine will likely win the war within the next year.
In any case, Diesen does not believe that Russia will be able to turn the tide of the war to its advantage:
– I don’t think they are able to militarily regain the initiative and turn the decline into new progress. It does not appear that Russian forces have such proficiency. As if they were unable to carry out operations of this scale, says Diesen, adding that the decline on the Russian side seems to be accelerating.
– This makes it difficult to say anything about when a breakdown might occur, he says.
