Russia Hits Kyiv With Hypersonic Ballistic Missile

EPA

A Ukrainian rescuer at the site of a Russian strike on a shopping centre in Kyiv.

Russian forces hit targets in Ukraine using ‌four types of missiles - Oreshnik, Iskander, Kinzhal and Zircon - in overnight attacks on ⁠Sunday, in retaliation for Kyiv's strikes on civilian targets in Russia, state news agencies reported.

The attacks, all successful, were carried out ‌on ⁠Ukrainian military command facilities, air bases and other enterprises of Ukraine's military-industrial ⁠complex, the Interfax news agency cited the Russian ⁠Defence Ministry as saying.

Quoted by local news agencies, the Russian defence ministry said it had carried out successful attacks on Ukrainian military command facilities, airbases and other military enterprises, using Oreshnik, Iskander, Kinzhal and Zircon missiles.

It said the attack was retaliation for Ukrainian strikes on “civilian facilities on Russian territory”.

Russia hit the city of Bila Tserkva in the Kyiv region with the missile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said. He described a heavy Russian assault that also hit a water supply facility, burned down a market and damaged dozens of residential buildings and several schools.

Zelenskyy described a “heavy attack” targeting Kyiv that involved 600 drones and 90 missiles of various kinds, 36 of which were ballistic ones.

“Unfortunately, not all of the ballistic missiles were intercepted – the largest number of hits was in Kyiv. Kyiv was the primary target of this Russian attack,” he wrote on X.

Sources: Reuters, The Guardian



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