Kyiv and the Kiev region, Kharkov and the outskirts of the city, Dnieper, Zaporozhye are under attack by the invaders.
“The Russians decided to launch another massive strike on Kyiv in the bitter cold,” said the head of the KGVA Timur Tkachenko on Telegram.
The occupiers use, in particular, ballistic missiles (Kyiv and Dnepr), KAB (Kharkiv region). Now in these cities it is -16… -23 °C.
A series of explosions sounded in the capital.
“In the Darnitsky district, a non-residential building hit. In the Dneprovsky district, there was a fire in the premises of a kindergarten,” Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko wrote on Telegram.
According to him, doctors went there.
Tkachenko noted that there is information about damage to several residential high-rise buildings in Kyiv.
According to monitoring channels, the Russian Federation also attacked the village of Nalivaykovka in the Kyiv region with Kh-22 cruise missiles (combat weight – 950 kg) and Zircon anti-ship missiles.
In this area there is the Kyiv substation, which connects the Rivne nuclear power plant with the capital.
There are already two casualties in Kharkov, the OVA reported.
At the time of writing, the Russian attack was ongoing.
Monitoring channels are also wrote about the departures of Tu-95MS/Tu-160 aircraft from the Far East, from which the aggressor country of the Russian Federation launches cruise missiles at Ukraine.
Context
On January 29, American President Donald Trump said that he personally asked the illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin refrain from striking Ukraine for a week due to extreme frosts. According to Trump, Putin allegedly “agreed to do this.” The head of the Ukrainian state, Vladimir Zelensky, confirmed that “the teams talked about this” at a trilateral meeting of the United States, Russia and Ukraine.
On January 30, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed Trump’s request to “refrain for a week, until February 1,” from launching strikes on Kyiv in order to “create favorable conditions” for negotiations to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian war.
On the same day, Zelensky said that the United States had talked about refraining from attacks on energy for a week, and On the night of January 30, the countdown began.
