The Ukrainian army announced – at dawn on Monday – the interception of 8 Russian missiles targeting the capital KyivAccording to local authorities, casualties were reported, while Moscow announced the exposure of large-scale activities of a “network of agents affiliated with the Ukrainian security services.”
The Ukrainian Air Force said via Telegram that, “According to preliminary information, it was launched Russia A missile attack on the Kiev region, and 8 air targets were intercepted by the air defense, which were moving towards the capital on a ballistic trajectory.”
For his part, the head of the military administration in Kiev, Serhiy Popko, explained via Telegram that “air defense systems shot down two enemy targets,” and also indicated that Russia launched an attack on Kiev using missiles.
The military administration in Kiev reported via Telegram that fragments of missiles fell in the Darnitsky district, southeast of the capital, and added that ambulance teams provided treatment to 4 residents, one of whom was injured by shrapnel.
In turn, Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said via Telegram that “a missile fragment damaged a building under construction in the Darnitsky district,” causing a fire that was quickly extinguished.
Klitschko added that a man and a woman suffered injuries resulting from shrapnel in the Darnitsky area in the southeast of the city. He pointed out that emergency services were deployed in two other areas in the city.
Client network
In the opposite camp, the Russian Federal Security Service announced today, Monday, its success in thwarting large-scale activities of what it called a network of agents affiliated with the Ukrainian security services in Crimeaduring the current year.
According to the statement, 14 acts of sabotage were thwarted, including attempts to blow up 6 sections of railway lines, demolish two gas distribution facilities, target 3 electrical power substations, and dismantle 3 cars.
15 caches prepared by the Ukrainian intelligence service were discovered, and 37 explosive devices and more than 200 kilograms of explosives were seized. 10 people were also tried on charges of preparing acts of sabotage.
Failed attempts
In the same context, the head of the press center of the Russian “East” group of forces, Alexander Gordeev, reported that the Russian forces “succeeded, with artillery support, in thwarting 3 attempts to rotate the 58th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zolotaya Neva and Novodontsky regions.”
Also on the southern Donetsk axis, artillery units of the “East” group of forces bombed temporary deployment points of the same Ukrainian brigade in the Orozhyny region, as well as human concentrations and equipment of the 79th Air Brigade in Novomikhaylovka.
Tactical operational aircraft also carried out strikes on the concentration sites of Ukrainian forces in the Paraskovivka area.
