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The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine has once again reached its most aggressive and destructive phase. After the recent drone attacks by Ukraine on Moscow and its border areas, Russia has now started retaliatory action. The Russian army has launched a fierce attack on several major strategic targets including Ukraine’s capital Kiev with cruise missiles, ballistic weapons and kamikaze drones. Kiev was shaken by the missiles rained from the sky, sirens started echoing all around and there was huge damage to residential and infrastructure. According to initial reports, at least 4 people have lost their lives in these attacks, while many others are said to be seriously injured.
The attack began in the early morning when dozens of missiles were fired from Russian bombers and naval ships towards Ukraine. The sounds of loud explosions that occurred in several districts of Kiev were heard for miles. According to eyewitnesses, the blast was so powerful that multi-storey buildings shook and window glasses were broken in many areas.
Immediately after the attack, massive fires broke out in many buildings, due to which a huge plume of black smoke was visible in the sky of Kiev from several kilometers away. Local rescue teams and emergency services immediately reached the spot and started rescuing people trapped under the debris. Kyiv’s city administration issued an appeal to citizens to remain in bunkers and sheltered areas as the attacks were carried out intermittently in several waves.
Military analysts believe that this action of Russia is not a normal strategic operation, but a direct and strong counterattack to the attacks by Ukrainian drones on Moscow and Russian oil depots. In the past few days, Ukraine has attempted to use long-range drones to target targets deep inside the Russian border, which the Kremlin considered a direct attack on its sovereignty.
The Russian Defense Ministry had already given clear indications that any attack on Russian territory would be responded to with many times more force on Kiev’s decision-making centers and strategic military assets. Today’s attacks confirm this military policy, primarily targeting energy plants, weapons depots and military logistics centers in order to weaken Ukraine’s combat capability.
The Ukrainian Air Force has claimed that its air defense system shot down several missiles and drones fired by Russia in the air. However, due to the intensity of the attacks and the missiles being fired simultaneously from different directions, the air defense system was unable to completely intercept all the projectiles. Many residential colonies and sub-stations associated with power generation have been heavily damaged by missile debris and direct hits.
After the attack, electricity and water supply has been disrupted in many areas, which emergency teams are continuously working to restore. The administration fears that the number of casualties may increase after complete removal of the debris, as many people may still be buried under the damaged buildings.
This latest attack on Kiev has proved that the tension between the two countries is not reducing at any level, but now the process of directly targeting each other’s capitals and big cities has started. The European Union and Western countries are keeping a close eye on this development, while Ukraine is reiterating its demand from its Western allies to speed up the supply of more advanced air defense systems and long-range weapons. This new turn of the war is not only extremely worrying for regional security, but also points towards a bigger military confrontation in the coming days.