“Russia Launches Airstrikes on Ukrainian Capital, Kyiv – Latest News and Updates | CNBC Indonesia”

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Russia has launched two waves of airstrikes on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The attack also killed at least one person and injured several people.

The attack from Russia coincided with the celebration of Kyiv Day, or the anniversary of the city’s official founding 1,541 years ago. The day is usually marked by public exhibitions, concerts and special museum exhibitions.

As previously known, the Ukrainian side reportedly attacked Russia’s “lifeblood” or in this case the Druzhba oil pipeline. The oil pipeline actually serves crude oil shipments from West Siberia to Europe.

According to Reuters, Sunday (28/5/2023) Ukrainian drone attacks inside Russia have increased in intensity in recent weeks, and the New York Times reports that US intelligence believes Ukraine was behind the drone attack on the Kremlin earlier this month.

According to Mayor Vitali Klitschko Kyiv’s air defense systems downed at least 40 drones that were moving towards the city in the early hours of Sunday, with falling debris killing a 41-year-old man and wounding a 35-year-old woman.

Meanwhile, in the attack, Russia attacked several districts in Kyiv, Ukraine’s largest city with a population of nearly three million. Aljazeera reported that when the air raid alerts began shortly after midnight, many people were standing on the balconies of their homes. Some of them shouted attacks aimed at Russian President Vladimir Putin and the slogan “Glory to air defence“.

Al Jazeera also reported that in Kyiv’s leafy Holosiivskyi district in southwest Kyiv, falling debris set a three-storey warehouse ablaze. The debris destroyed about 1,000 square meters of the structure.

Fires also broke out after the wreckage of the drone hit a seven-storey non-residential building in the Solomyanskyi district, to the west of the city. The district is a busy rail and air transport hub.

Meanwhile in the Pecherskyi district, Kyiv military administration officials said, a fire broke out on the roof of a nine-story building due to falling debris from a drone.

Over the past few weeks, reports of drone strikes in Russia have also multiplied. Most of the drone strikes take place in areas bordering Ukraine.

On the other hand, the Moscow side blames Kyiv, and its supporters, for the increasing number of attacks and sabotage operations, including in the Kremlin.

(pgr/pgr)