Inlast reported the second series of explosions in Kiev in the morning For the first time in more than 10 days, the authorities of Kiev and the region reported attacks on critical infrastructure
Vitali Klitschko
In Kiev, an air alert was announced for the second time in the morning, according to the telegram channel of the city military administration. The authorities announced a missile attack on the capital. According to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, explosions are heard in the Dnipro district of the city. He also said that in the Goloseevsky district in the south-west of Kiev, rocket fragments fell on an uninhabited territory, no one was injured.
The deputy head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Kirill Tymoshenko, said that an object of critical infrastructure was attacked. The military administration of the city confirmed this.
The head of the office of the Ukrainian president, Andriy Ermak, urged residents not to ignore the alarms. A number of Ukrainian media outlets, including Hromadske, write about the explosions.ua and others. An air alert has also been declared in the Chernihiv region.
A few hours earlier, the head of the military administration of the Kiev region, Alexey Kuleba, reported that a fire had occurred at one of the critical infrastructure facilities. The deputy commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Alexander Pavlyuk, at the same time said that the explosions in Kiev and the region are not related to military operations.
On the morning of January 14, the Industrial district of Kharkiv was also subjected to missile strikes. According to Mayor Igor Terekhov, their target was infrastructure facilities. Explosions were also heard in the regional center of the Zaporozhye region – the city of Zaporozhye. In the Mykolaiv region, the city of Ochakov came under fire, the head of the regional administration Vitaly Kim said. There was a fire at one of the objects of civil infrastructure: a garage, two cars caught fire, windows in a multi-storey building were damaged.
In the first days of the month, the Ukrainian authorities reported several times about the shelling of Kiev. So, explosions in the city thundered on the night of January 1, 2 and 3, after which emergency power outages were introduced in the capital. Klitschko said that some heat supply facilities were de-energized.
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On January 11, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu appointed the head of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov as the commander of the joint group of troops in Ukraine. The former commander-in-chief Sergei Surovikin became his deputy along with the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces Oleg Salyukov and Deputy Chief of the General Staff Alexei Kim. In the Ministry of Defensethey reported that we are talking about increasing the level of leadership of the military operation in Ukraine, and explained this decision by expanding the scale of the tasks being solved during its implementation, the need to organize closer interaction of the armed forces and improving the quality of providing troops and the effectiveness of managing groups of troops.
Since October 2022, Russia has been attacking the military administration and energy facilities of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin explained this as a response to Kiev’s actions. One of the last such attacks, reported by the Ministry of Defense, occurred on December 31: the department announced strikes on objects of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine involved in the production of unmanned vehicles, as well as parking, storage and launch of attack drones.
On January 8, the Russian military department reported that after the end of the truce regime imposed on Christmas Day on behalf of Putin, rocket and artillery strikes were carried out in various directions, as a result of which firing positions, manpower and enemy warehouses were hit.
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