The local authorities in Dnipro, Ukraine, announced that “massive destruction” was recorded at the city’s airport in the east of the country, following Russian bombing on Monday night.
“During the night, the enemy attacked Dnipro airport. Two strikes. Runway destroyed. Airport building damaged. Huge destruction,” Valentin Reznichenko, the governor of the Dnipro region, wrote on Telegram.
For its part, the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, will impose a curfew for 36 hours from Tuesday evening, amid a “difficult and dangerous moment” following several Russian strikes, said Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
And with the continuation of Russian military operation in Ukraine In its third week, an explosion was heard on Tuesday morning in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and sirens sounded in different areas, while heavy shelling targeted the city of Kharkiv during the night.
The emergency service in Kyiv reported that at least two people had been killed in the bombing of a residential building. “The bodies of two people were found and 27 people were rescued,” the Ukrainian emergency service added, adding that the building is located in the Svyatoshenki district in western Kyiv.
At the same time, local sources reported that the death toll from the Russian bombing of a TV tower in northern Ukraine had risen to 19, while the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister said that his country was seeking to open 9 humanitarian corridors for the exit of civilians from Lviv today.
For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry announced its control over all the territories located in the Ukrainian region of Kherson. And the Interfax news agency, quoting the ministry, reported that the Russian forces had shot down 6 Bayraktar TB-2 drones during the past 24 hours.
Fighting has escalated in recent days in the vicinity of Kyiv, which is now almost completely surrounded by Russian forces that invaded Ukraine on February 24. About half of Kyiv’s three million residents have fled since the Russian offensive began.
Heavy fighting has been going on for days between Russian and Ukrainian forces on the northwestern outskirts of Kyiv.
This comes as the Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Russian army had destroyed all firing points used by the Ukrainian forces in the suburbs of Mariupol.
On the other hand, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, for its part, has made it clear that it will not allow the Russian army to occupy any part of Ukraine.
Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov stressed that the Russian forces will take immediate measures to disrupt the enterprises of the Ukrainian military industries.
Simultaneously, the mayor of Lviv said that one of the missiles that hit Lviv was close to hitting Poland, as it was only 20 kilometers from the Polish border.
This comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin described the Ukrainian army’s bombing of the city center of Donetsk as a brutal attack.
During a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Putin said that the Ukrainian army used cluster munitions, and the call discussed the ongoing negotiations between Russia and Ukraine for a ceasefire in addition to efforts to protect civilians.
This is Ukrainian presidential advisor Oleksiy Aristovich said The war in Ukraine is likely to end by early May When Russia runs out of the resources it needs in a military operation once morest its neighbor.
