A few hours after Zelenskyj gave a speech at the G20 summit, Russia launched rocket attacks in several regions of the neighboring country. Three apartment buildings are hit in Kyiv. Footage shows a blazing building. In many regions, people no longer have electricity. The full extent of the destruction is still unclear.
Russia has launched rocket attacks on the capital Kyiv and other regions of Ukraine. Attacks were also reported from the Odessa, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Khmelnytskyi, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions. The rockets hit at least three residential buildings in the capital, as Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced on Telegram. Several missiles were shot down by the air defenses, it said. A fatality was found in one of the houses, Klitschko said. The search and rescue work continues.
As reported by several Ukrainian Telegram channels, a strong fire broke out in the city after the attack. The local military administration urges the people of Kyiv to stay in emergency shelters. Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Deputy Secretary of State to the President of Ukraine, published a video on Telegram of a fire in an apartment building.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the Russian invaders fired around 100 rockets at Ukraine - more than in the massive October 10 rocket attack. At that time, the Russians fired at Ukraine with a total of 84 rockets. According to Ukrainian media reports, this time the rockets were fired over the Caspian Sea.
According to the national electricity supplier Ukrenergo, energy infrastructure facilities across the country have been damaged. The situation is most difficult in the northern and central regions and in Kyiv. In the country's second-largest city, Kharkiv, there was a partial power outage. The subway was paralyzed by the shelling. Also in Odessa, Lviv, Zhytomyr, Rivne and many other cities there is no electricity after the air raids. In total, power outages were registered in ten regions of Ukraine.
Just a few hours before the attacks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the heads of state and government of the 20 leading industrialized and emerging countries. "Russia responds to Zelenskyy's powerful speech at the G20 with a new missile attack," wrote Andriy Yermak, Zelenskyy's chief of staff, on Twitter.
