Russia bombed cities across Ukraine during rush hour on Monday morning in apparent revenge strikes after President Vladimir Putin declared an explosion on the bridge to Crimea to be a terrorist attack.
Missiles tore into Kyiv, the most intense strikes on the capital since Russia abandoned an attempt to captured it in the early weeks of the war.
“They are trying to destroy us and wipe us off the face of the earth, destroy our people who are sleeping at home in Zaporizhzhia. Kill people who go to work in Dnipro and Kyiv,”President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says on the Telegram messaging app. “The capital is under attack from Russian terrorists! The missiles hit objects in the city centre and in the Solomyanskyi district. The air raids sirens are going off, and therefore the threat, continues,” mayor Vitali Klitschko posted on social media.
“This was devised, carried out and ordered by the Ukrainian special services,” he says in a video on the Kremlin’s Telegram channel. Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said ahead of the meeting that Russia should kill the”terrorists” responsible for the attack.
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