– Another rocket attack against Ukraine. The enemy had particularly targeted Kyiv, says Serhiy Popko, head of the Ukrainian military administration. On Thursday morning, Popko says that the air defense system shot down all the missiles aimed at the capital, and that there was no major destruction or damage in Kyiv. Rocket attacks against several Ukrainian cities have been reported on Thursday. Just before 07:00, the nationwide flight alert should have been raised, according to the AFP news agency. Took off from Murmansk The mayor of Kyiv, Vitaly Klitschko, asked residents to stay in bomb shelters. – Explosions in the city. The air defense system is working, he writes on Telegram. According to Reuters, witnesses report explosions in various parts of the capital. Kyiv mayor Vitaly Klitschko reports that the air defense system is working Photo: AP – The departure of several Tu-95 bombers from Olenja airport was registered, the Ukrainian Air Force writes on Telegram. Later, the air force wrote that rockets were “on the way to Kyiv”. The airport is located in the Murmansk region, in the north of Russia. In the north-west, the county borders Finnmark. At least one person killed The governor of Zaporizhzhya states that one person was injured and an “infrastructure object” was hit in the attack. In Chuhiv, at least one person will be killed, according to the Kyiv Independent. The city is located in Kharkiv Oblast, which borders Russia. The area is therefore exposed to almost daily attacks. The Ukrainian defense reports that the Russian warship Admiral Makarov has entered the Black Sea. The ship is equipped with eight cruise missiles. news is present in Odesa in southern Ukraine. There, the flight alarm went off at around 05 local time on Thursday morning. The city has been exposed to repeated Russian attacks. Foreign affairs officer Morten Jentoft and photographer Lokman Ghorbani are in Odesa on Thursday morning. Photo: Morten Jentoft / news On Tuesday, a house was hit by what were probably Russian drones. On Thursday morning, residents were asked to prepare to go to shelters. Used for attack wave The Air Force has reported similar incidents where several aircraft have taken to the wings earlier in February and in January. The Ukrainian defense reports that it was a Soviet-developed Tupolev Tu-95 bomber that took off against Ukraine on Thursday. Photo: AP At the end of December, Russia used the aircraft to carry out a wave of airstrikes against Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv, where a total of 39 people were killed. The bomber type is known in NATO as Bear and is also regularly observed off the coast of Norway. Uncertain death toll How many civilians have been killed since Russia invaded is uncertain. There is no independent census since the Russians have not let independents into areas they have conquered, writes NTB. A block of flats is hit by gunfire from a Russian tank in Mariupol on 11 March 2022. The picture is from the documentary film “20 Days in Mariupol”. Photo: Evgeniy Maloletka / AP In June last year, Ukrainian authorities stated that they had only registered 10,368 civilians where the remains were found. – We think the figure is at least five times as high, around 50,000 civilians killed, said Oleg Gavrych, who is an adviser to the Ukrainian government, according to AFP. February 24 marks two years since Russia invaded Ukraine.
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