Russia confirms air strikes on Kiev, destroying foreign tanks that aid Ukraine
The Russian government has confirmed that its forces have carried out an air strike on the Ukrainian capital Kiev for the first time in months and destroyed foreign tanks that aid the neighboring country.
At the recently held press conference, the spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense RussiaMajor General Igor Konashenkov said that the country’s soldiers today, June 5, carried out air strikes “on the outskirts of Kiev, destroying T-72 tanks and other armored vehicles made by Eastern European countries supplied to Ukraine and stored in railway carriage repair facilities”.
According to RT, the spokesman did not specify where the tanks came from, but Poland has previously claimed to have donated T-72 tanks to Ukraine.
Konashenkov added that Russian troops also hit military targets in the Donbass region and other areas of eastern and southern Ukraine, including multiple rocket launchers and a mobile counter-attack radar deployed by the Russian military. American production.
Earlier, Reuters quoted a representative of the Ukrainian air force and the mayor of Kiev as saying that Russia’s Tu-95 strategic bombers had fired missiles at the city from the Caspian Sea early in the morning of June 5. Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi, two of the eastern districts of the Ukrainian capital, were rocked by explosions during the attack on railway infrastructure here.
At least one person was taken to the hospital, according to Mayor Vitaly Klitschko, but there have been no reports of deaths in the incident.
In a message posted on the Telegram channel, Energoatom, the state-owned nuclear power operator Ukraine described, a Russian missile flew “extremely low” above a large nuclear power plant in the southern region of Mykolaiv and may be heading towards Kiev.
The mayor of the historic town of Brovary, about 20km from the center of Kiev, urged people to stay indoors to avoid toxic fumes spreading from the site of the airstrikes. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine’s president, called on the West to impose more sanctions on Russia for the bombardment and to give Kiev more weapons.
In an interview with the state television channel Rossiya-1 on June 4, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin Moscow has warned that Moscow will launch raids on new targets if the US and its Western allies supply Ukraine with longer-range missiles.
Tuan Anh
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