It is 11 at night when the alarms are activated for the first time. Around 7.00 on Wednesday, those alerts continue. Throughout those hours they reach four districts of the city 28 Russian pump drones and a kyiv ballistic missile that cause two dead and eight injured, four of them minors, according to local authorities. In parallel, and for the third consecutive night, Ukraine has also launched drones on Russian territory, although without causing fatalities. He has managed, however, impose again, as happened on Tuesday, the temporary closure of several airports in the Moscow region when the arrival was expected to participate this Thursday on victory day for the end of World war II World War II, Xi Jinping, according to the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobianin.
In kyiv, the explosions of those unmanned devices and the shots of the anti -aircraft defenses to try to tear them down follow each other throughout the night, illuminated by the tracers that, in a row, ascend from the ground. kyiv’s military administration reports that they have managed to intercept the ballistic missile and 11 of the drones. Some impacts make the windows tremble, activate the alarms of the vehicles parked on public roads and impose the barking of the dogs inside the houses while their owners appear to try to witness the attack. In a city where, after more than a thousand days of war due to Russian invasion on a large scale, this type of threat is frequently repeated, most trust luck and for a long time does not attend the council of the authorities to descend to the shelters.
Minutes before 7.00 in the morning one of those devices with its characteristic noise, similar to an old motorcycle. Advanza in the heart of the capital without becoming demolished before being lost sight of the cloudy sky. The scene takes place in broad daylight, with cars circulating through the streets, public transport in progress and citizens already on the way to their works. Some are safe under trees or canopies when they hear the detonations and threat in the sky of the Russian apparatus. Others, as immune and the daily threat, do not alter their walk.
After the alarms, the city recovers the pulse. At the height of number 46 of Tabirna Street in the Shevchenkivskii district, the activity is frantic after firefighters have suffocated the flames and that emergency services have removed the bodies of a 65 -year -old woman and her 28 -year -old son, details Oleksandr Popovtsev, responsible for the municipal authority in the district. He confirms that the impact of the model drone Shahed, With Iranian manufacturing and widely used in the contest by Russia, it took place at 4.50 in the morning.
-The five -height building appears crowned by a black hole in its highest part. It is where, apparently, he hit the device. Below, several apartments appear in three heights burned by the fire that caused the attack. Several operators are launching down balconies remains of furniture, carpets and other half -calcined utensils inside the houses. The rubble, some still smoking, fall in front of the pharmacy door that occupies the place at street level.
Lera, a young neighbor of the surrounding blocks who prefers not to give her last name or age, stops taking a hand to her mouth while holding with the other a glass of coffee. “Every day I pass through this place. It is bleak to contemplate this scene,” he regrets moments before embarking on the way to his work while adding that the explosion woke it up and did not reconcile the dream. Around them, other citizens swallow curious and surprised. Some capture images of the place in photo or video while the activity of the firefighters, the Red Cross and the police officers present in several tens are going out.
The authorities have shown images of the impacts of the drones in other buildings, such as one of ten heights where you do not have to regret dead, but do damage to two of the plants and in a dozen cars parked in front. This Wednesday’s attack takes place after the one left 12 fatal victims last Thursday in the worst bombing carried out by Russian forces on kyiv since last summer.
This new offensive on different districts of the Ukrainian capital, which is being the objective of the Russian forces almost daily, occurs on the eve of Moscow on Thursday, on Thursday the great parade with which President Vladimir Putin celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over the Nazis in World War II. Xi Jinping is the main foreign president who has confirmed his assistance to the great parade. Precisely on May 8, the so -called Victory Day for Russia, marks the beginning of a three -day truce decreed by Putin unilaterally and that Ukraine does not accept, because it demands a high fire of at least 30 days, and not a cessation of attacks that coincides only with the fakes in Moscow.
