Following Putin’s warning, Russia launches missiles at Kiev as Poland deploys F-16s to monitor airspace

Russian missiles descended on Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, and other major cities, leaving two people dead and more than fifty injured. The hits caused flames and structural damage to tall structures.

Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, had said that Moscow will step up its attacks on Ukraine. The city center’s buildings rocked as a result of a series of loud explosions, according to AFP’s correspondents. According to Vitaly Klitschko, the mayor of Kiev, there was one fatality and twenty injuries in the city.

“An elderly lady who was injured in a building in the Solomyansky area passed away in an ambulance. Hospitalized were twenty-seven injured individuals, according to Klitschko.

According to Ukrainian sources, Russia launched 99 missiles on Tuesday, downing 72 of them. The air force “destroyed 72 air targets,” according to commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzhny, who posted on social media that “the enemy used 99 air attack weapons — missiles of various types.”

The missiles, according to Kyiv authorities, set fire to a market, residential buildings, and a supermarket building in a number of different neighborhoods.

To safeguard its airspace, Poland sent four F-16 fighter fighters to its eastern border on Tuesday.

The Polish army released a statement saying, “Two pairs of F-16 fighters and an allied air tanker were put into action to ensure the safety of Polish airspace.”

BOMBS OF RUSSIA’S OWN VILLAGE
The Russian army said on Tuesday that it had unintentionally blasted its own hamlet in the southern Voronezh area, close to Ukraine, although it emphasized that no one had been hurt. Russia has already unintentionally attacked its own territory; in April 2022, one of its jets dropped a bomb on the city of Belgorod.

As per the Russian army, a “abnormal discharge of aircraft ammunition occurred over the village of Petropavlovka,” according to an AFP news report.

Six private homes were destroyed in the disaster, according to Voronezh governor Alexander Gusev, who added that part of Petropavlovka’s inhabitants had been relocated to temporary housing.