The Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Russian Air Force bombed 112 military targets in Ukraine during the last night, including 4 missile and artillery weapons depots.
"The operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Air Force launched raids on 112 military installations of Ukraine at night," the ministry's spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, said - in a press briefing today, Friday.
Noteworthy, Russia launched missiles throughout Ukraine on Thursday, including one that hit Kyiv as the UN Secretary-General was there, in the most audacious attack on the capital since Moscow’s forces withdrew weeks ago.
According to Ukrainian officials, one of the two missiles fired at Kiev hit the lower floors of a 25-story residential structure, injuring at least ten people.
The attack occurred less than an hour after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a press conference with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who stated that Ukraine had become “an epicentre of unimaginable anguish and pain.”
According to the UN Secretary-spokeswoman, General’s one of the Russian missiles that attacked Kyiv struck near the hotel where the UN head is staying.
Fortunately, the UN team was meeting with the prime minister in his office at the time and was not in the hotel.
The bombs, which occurred only hours after US Vice President Joe Biden promised a doubling of US military and economic aid to Ukraine, targeted the central Shevchenko neighbourhood, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
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