Russian forces have launched massive missile strikes on Ukraine's Kyiv and Chernihiv regions, areas that hadn't been targeted in weeks, while Ukrainian officials announced an operation to liberate an occupied region in the country's south.
Russian missile strikes hit the Vyshgorod district of Kyiv and the city of Chernihiv in Ukraine's north
Kyiv regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba said on Telegram that a settlement in the Vyshgorod district of the region was targeted early on Thursday morning, with an "infrastructure object" being hit. It wasn't immediately clear if there were any casualties. Russian troops withdrew from the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions months ago after failing to capture either.The renewed strikes come a day after the leader of pro-Kremlin separatists in the east, Denis Pushilin, publicly urged Russian forces to "liberate Russian cities founded by the Russian people — Kyiv, Chernihiv, Poltava, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Lutsk."
"A very large-scale movement of their troops has begun, they are gathering additional forces," Mr Danilov warned. It added that Ukraine has used its new long-range artillery to damage at least three of the bridges across the Dnieper River, "which Russia relies upon to supply the areas under its control."
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