Explosions heard in Kyiv, official says enemy aircraft downed By Reuters

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian forces downed an enemy plane over Kyiv within the early hours of Friday, which then crashed right into a residential constructing and set it on hearth, mentioned Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to the inside minister.

It was unclear whether or not the plane was manned or whether or not it may very well be a missile. Kyiv municipal authorities mentioned not less than eight individuals had been injured when the article crashed into an condo block.

Ukraine’s International Minister Dmytro Kuleba mentioned Kyiv had come beneath a missile assault.

“Horrific Russian rocket strikes on Kyiv,” he wrote on Twitter (NYSE:). “Final time our capital skilled something like this was in 1941 when it was attacked by Nazi Germany.”

A collection of explosions had been heard in Kyiv earlier, which Herashchenko mentioned had been the sounds of air defences firing on the plane. Additional explosions may very well be heard simply earlier than daybreak, a Reuters witness mentioned.

Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Thursday and Kyiv has reported dozens of casualties and tons of of wounded.

Authorities mentioned intense combating was beneath manner on Friday morning within the metropolis of Sumy within the nation’s northeast, whereas a border put up within the southeastern Zaporizhzhya area had been hit by missiles, inflicting deaths and accidents amongst border guards.