Sneak assault: Russia dispatches hostile on Kyiv for first time in quite a while
Russian rockets descended upon the Kyiv locale Thursday, the first time in quite a while the Kremlin has designated the region encompassing the Ukrainian capital.
“Russia, with the assistance of rockets, is mounting vengeance for the inescapable well known obstruction,”
local Gov. Oleksiy Kuleba said on Ukrainian TV.
“Ukraine has previously broken Russia’s arrangements and will keep on protecting itself.”
Kuleba said via online entertainment that foundation in Vyshgorod had been hit in the assault, yet gave no further subtleties nor setback figures.
The Chernihiv area was likewise hit Thursday, with Gov. Vyacheslav Chaus saying the town of Honcharivska was hit by rockets terminated from the Belarussian domain.
Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-biggest city and a most loved focus for Russian gunnery, was likewise shelled Thursday.
The attacks came as Russian forces are making a renewed push for control of Ukraine’s eastern industrial regions — known collectively as the Donbas — following a so-called
“operational pause”
to lick wounds and resupply after costly victories in the Luhansk province earlier this month.
It also comes amid a new wave of Kremlin bravado, including Chechen troops whose uniforms include a threat to take the Ukrainian capital.
Russian troops, hamstrung by haphazard logistics and low morale, tried and failed to take Kyiv and the rest of northern Ukraine in the opening months of the war.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich told reporters that a counterattack was underway to liberate Kherson in the south — the first city to fall to the Russians.
Ukrainian forces pummelled a key bridge in the Kherson region with American-made rocket artillery this week, in a reportedly successful effort to hamper Russian resupply.
Arestovich said Russian troops in the region had three options in the coming days:
“retreat, if possible, surrender or be destroyed.”
