Air raid sirens started blaring throughout the capital at about 3:45am, adopted by explosions as Ukrainian protection programs intercepted missiles.
Eighteen cruise missiles have been fired from the Murmansk and Caspian areas, and 15 of them have been intercepted, Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi stated.
Kyiv’s metropolis administration head Serhii Popko stated all missiles fired on the metropolis have been shot down, in addition to some drones. He didn’t present additional particulars.
The assault follows Friday's launch of greater than 20 cruise missiles and two explosive drones at Ukraine, the primary to focus on Kyiv in practically two months.
In that assault, Russian missiles hit an condo constructing in Uman, a metropolis about 215 kilometres south of Kyiv, killing 21 folks, together with three youngsters.
In Monday's assault, missiles hit Pavlohrad, within the jap Dnipropetrovsk area, killing two folks and wounding 40, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated.
Seven missiles have been shot on the metropolis and “some have been intercepted” however others struck an industrial facility, sparking a hearth, authorities stated. Injury was reported to 24 condo buildings, 89 houses, six faculties and 5 outlets, in keeping with regional authorities.
Missiles additionally hit three different areas within the Dnipropetrovsk area, damaging residential buildings and a college, stated Serhii Lysak, the area’s high official.
Russian Protection Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov stated Monday that Russia performed “a bunch missile strike with long-range precision-guided airborne and seaborne weapons on services of Ukraine’s defence trade ... all designated services have been struck.”
A Russian-installed official within the occupied Zaporizhzhia area, Vladimir Rogov, stated the assault hit ammunition and gasoline depots in Pavlohrad, which he stated would impede Ukraine's deliberate counteroffensive.
The assaults additionally broken Ukraine's energy community infrastructure, which can take a number of days to restore, in keeping with Ukraine's vitality minister, Herman Haluschenko. He stated that just about 20,000 folks within the metropolis of Kherson and the broader area had been left with out energy, together with others within the Dnipropetrovsk area.
Moscow has often launched long-range missile assaults throughout the 14-month conflict, usually indiscriminately hitting civilian areas.
Anticipating the Ukrainian counteroffensive, Russian forces are particularly centered now on destroying logistical routes and centres of Ukraine's armed forces, southern regional navy spokeswoman Natalia Humeniuk advised Ukrainian TV.
Bolstering Ukraine's capabilities for the counteroffensive are latest deliveries of American-made Patriot missiles that enhance anti-missile defences. It was not clear whether or not any of them have been employed in making an attempt to cease Monday morning's assault. As well as, Ukraine has been build up its mechanized brigades with armour equipped by its Western allies, who've additionally been coaching Ukrainian troops and sending ammunition.
Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014, has come underneath periodic assault as Zelenskyy has vowed to reclaim it and different occupied territory.
On Monday, Russian officers reported flattening at the very least two Ukrainian drones in Crimea, however they did not clarify whether or not any had hit their targets. The peninsula is house to Russia's Black Sea Fleet. On Saturday, two Ukrainian drones hit a Russian oil depot in Crimea.
Ukraine does not acknowledge duty for such assaults.
In what has turn out to be a grinding conflict of attrition, the fiercest battles have been within the jap Donetsk area, the place Russia is struggling to encircle town of Bakhmut within the face of dogged Ukrainian defence.
Troops from Russia's Wagner mercenary group and different forces are preventing Ukrainian troops house-to-house to attempt to acquire management of what has turn out to be referred to as the “street of life” - the final remaining street west nonetheless in Ukrainian fingers, crucial for provides and contemporary troops.
Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, the top of Ukrainian floor forces, stated Russia continued to exert “most effort” to take town however up to now had failed.
“In some components of town, the enemy was counterattacked by our models and left some positions," he stated.
In Russia's Bryansk area, which borders northern Ukraine, an explosive machine derailed a freight prepare, regional governor Alexander Bogomaz stated.
There have been no instant indications of who set off the explosive, however Bryansk has suffered sporadic cross-border shelling throughout the conflict. In March, two folks have been reported killed in what Bryansk officers stated was an incursion by Ukrainian saboteurs.