Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credit: DANYLO ANTONIUK / ANADOLU / ANADOLU VIA AFP 12:24 p.m., February 7, 2024

This Wednesday, after a new “massive” air attack by Russia, at least five people were killed, including four in a residential building in the capital. In total, Russia launched 44 missiles and 20 explosive drones at Ukraine, forcing Josep Borrell, head of European diplomacy, to take refuge in an air raid shelter in kyiv.

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At least five people were killed on Wednesday in Ukraine, including four in a residential building in the capital after a new "massive" air attack by Russia, during a visit by the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell. Present in kyiv since the day before, Josep Borrell had to take refuge in an air raid shelter, noted an AFP journalist. “Yet another massive attack against our state. Six regions were targeted by the enemy,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram.

The main information: 

  • Several waves of missiles and drones fell on the country, killing at least three people in kyiv and another in Mykolaiv (south)

  • In total, Russia launched 44 missiles and 20 explosive drones at Ukraine

  • In kyiv, debris from a downed missile fell on a 17-story residential building in the Golosiivsky district (south), causing a large fire and killing four people and injuring at least 32 others.

  • On the eastern bank of the Dnieper River, high-voltage lines were damaged, leaving 19,000 consumers in the Dniprovsky and Desniansky districts without electricity.

  • In Mykolaiv, a man died from serious injuries after the attack which destroyed the roofs of around twenty houses and damaged gas and water pipes

64 explosive devices sent by Russia

Several waves of missiles and drones fell on the country, killing at least three people in kyiv and another in Mykolaiv (south), according to the respective authorities, and inflicting damage on residential sites. In the capital, the alert was triggered shortly before 6:00 a.m. local time (04:00 GMT), and lasted three hours. Several series of loud explosions resonated in the city, according to AFP journalists on site.

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In total, Russia launched 44 missiles and 20 explosive drones at Ukraine, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armies Valery Zaluzhny said on Telegram. According to him, these include 36 cruise projectiles of various types, three ballistic missiles and 5 S-300 missiles. Of this total of 64 devices, Ukrainian forces intercepted 29 cruise missiles and 15 drones, added the same source.

In Kiev, debris from a downed missile fell on a 17-story residential building in the Golosiïvsky district (south), causing a large fire and killing four people and injuring at least 32 others, according to the town hall. A fire truck used a large crane to extinguish the fire with jets of water and firefighters also entered the building late in the morning, noted an AFP journalist on site.

“The windows exploded”

On several upper floors, smoke was billowing from the windows and the walls were blackened. "I even saw the missile flying, it rose then flew with its tail on fire, I couldn't see where, then it hit," resident Valentyna Kozatchouk told AFP. a 63-year-old retiree. According to her, all the doors leading to the landing and the stairwell were blown out and the windows on her balcony were damaged.

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Another resident, Oksana, and her 3-year-old daughter were awakened by the explosion. “Between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m., we heard very loud missiles and, with the last detonation, the strongest, the windows exploded,” this 43-year-old woman told AFP.

19,000 people deprived of electricity

On the eastern bank of the Dnieper River, high-voltage lines were damaged, leaving 19,000 consumers in the Dniprovsky and Desniansky districts without electricity, the Energy Ministry said in a statement. In Mykolaiv, a man died from serious injuries after the attack which destroyed the roofs of around twenty houses and damaged gas and water pipes, said Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych.

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Kharkiv, the country's second city located in the east, came under fire from S-300 missiles, said regional governor Oleg Synegoubov. A woman was slightly injured and infrastructure damaged, he said. In the Lviv region (west), a missile hit an industrial site in the town of Drogobych, around fifty kilometers from the Polish border, without causing any casualties, regional governor Maksym Kozytsky said on Telegram. However, another missile was able to be shot down in this region, according to the same source.