Critical infrastructure as well as residential areas including parks, university grounds, a residential building and a pedestrian bridge were hit, according to city officials and NBC reporters on the ground.
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The Russians"have two targets. Energy facilities – throughout the country," Zelenskyy added, listing a wide range of cities and regions in the country's north, west, east and south."They want panic and chaos, they want to destroy our energy system." Several Ukrainian cities have been hit by what officials are describing as a wave of missile attacks — as far west as the city of Lviv, largely considered one of the safest parts of the country."Kyiv region and Khmelnytsky region, Lviv and Dnipro, Vinnytsia, Frankiv region, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy region, Kharkiv region, Zhytormyr region, Kirovohrad region, the south," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram.
Ukrainian officials are urging residents of Kyiv and other cities to stay in shelters in the wake of multiple strikes on the capital, which emergency services say have caused deaths and injuries. Reports are emerging of explosions in several other cities. The initial strikes on central Kyiv took place around 8:30 a.m. local time during the morning rush hour.Several large blasts hit the center of Ukrainian capital Kyiv Monday, according to witnesses and city officials, after
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