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Kiev ablaze after reported overnight missile and drone barrage (Video)

Ukrainian officials claim there were at least 13 impacts, with blurred-out footage showing large fires lighting up the skyline.

Ukrainian officials have claimed that the Russian military launched a wave of missile and drone strikes targeting the capital early Friday. The Russian Ministry of Defense has yet to comment.

The first strikes were reported shortly after midnight, with Mayor Vitaly Klitschko urging residents to seek shelter as the capital’s air defenses engaged incoming targets. Officials confirmed that by 4am, several mostly non-residential facilities in multiple districts had been hit in successive waves.

There were no immediate reports of fatalities, but Klitschko said at least 14 people were injured after falling debris from intercepted missiles and drones triggered fires in residential areas and private yards.

Multiple blurred-out videos shared on Ukrainian social media appear to show the aftermath of the strikes, with numerous fires lighting up the skyline of Kiev.

The exact locations and types of facilities hit are difficult to verify, as the Ukrainian authorities heavily censor the flow of information and punish those who share footage of the impacts – unless a civilian facility is affected.

The Russian Defense Ministry has not yet issued a statement on the incident. Moscow regularly conducts drone and missile strikes on Ukrainian military infrastructure, maintaining that its operations do not target civilians and accusing Kiev of placing air defense systems in densely populated areas.

The reported strikes came just hours after President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation with his US counterpart, during which Donald Trump reportedly urged Russia to cease hostilities in Ukraine as soon as possible. Putin reaffirmed Moscow’s openness to a negotiated solution, but reportedly stated that Russia would not back down until the “well-known root causes” of the conflict are addressed.

Despite several rounds of direct negotiations in Istanbul in recent months, Kiev has continued long-range attacks on Russian territory, including nightly drone raids. On Friday Morning, a woman was killed when a drone crashed into an apartment building in Rostov Region. On Tuesday, a Ukrainian drone strike caused multiple fatalities and serious injuries at an industrial plant in the city of Izhevsk around 1,000km (620 miles) east of Moscow. On Monday, a woman was killed and three others injured in a missile strike on the Donetsk People’s Republic.

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5 COMMENTS

  1. Should one feel sorry for the Ukrainian people? Their leader, the cokehead Zelensky certainly does not have any empathy for them, otherwise he would have stopped this war long ago. But if you are a puppet of the globalists and your country is being used as a proxy in the war against Russia, then the ordinary people don’t matter one bit.

    • Just because New Zealand is not wedged between the battlefields of psychopaths does not mean we matter more.

      • It would appear that the NZ govt does not care for the Ukrainian people either; what with their generous donations of taxpayer money to the neonazi regime to keep the war going. Is it up to 200 million yet?
        And no, the citizens of NZ did not matter at all to our own psychopath leader when she foisted the covid bioweapon onto them with her devastating mandates

  2. President Putin is now wrapping-up the defeat of the violators, AS HE SHOULD!
    Hopefully, he will also take the whole of the Ukraine so that it will never pose another U.N. / NATO / Khazarian J3wi$h threat to Russia ever again!
    Maybe the Scandinavian Nations of Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Denmark will return to the status of Armed Neutrality and offer a Non-Aggression Pact to the Russians. That would defuse lot of tension that was brought about by Zionist-induced ‘threat assessments’ which were false, paranoid & delusional portraying Russia as a threat.
    Quite frankly, the Scandinavian Nations mentioned above should form their own defence pact in order to not only protect themselves from potential Western invaders, but also to protect their White Nordic Culture from outside extremists J3w$ who are insisting that rampant migration should destroy the White Nordics on their own land!

    WAR ON EUROPE! Jews Importing Millions Of 3rd World Migrants For The Final Genocide Of The White Race
    June 5th, 2015 FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
    Responses to “WAR ON EUROPE! Jews Importing Millions Of 3rd World Migrants For The Final Genocide Of The White Race”

    thin says:
    March 15, 2016 at 9:58 am

    But should know that the jews are not the ones to take control of the world, it’s ROME and the Jews will be preached the GOSPEL which their ancestors denied.(Lord Jesus Christ)
    Awake Goy Humanity says:
    August 26, 2016 at 11:40 am

    ROME = Jews

    DIO CASSIUS. Second century Roman historian. Describing the savage Jewish uprising against the Roman empire that has been acknowledged as the turning point downward in the course of that great state-form: “The Jews were destroying both Greeks and Romans. They ate the flesh of their victims, made belts for themselves out of their entrails, and daubed themselves with their blood… In all, 220,000 men perished in Cyrene and 240,000 in Cyprus, and for this reason no Jew may set foot in Cyprus today.” (Roman History)

    Rosa says:
    June 10, 2022 at 3:22 pm

    Can’t believe there aren’t thousands of positive, encouraging, inspiring comments here…

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    The time is now. Tomorrow it will be too late.

    Thank you for your hard work, exposing extremely important, powerful facts.

    May GOD BLESS YOU, give you tremendous health, strength and power to reach the right people.

    Shared as far as I could. Hope it helps.
    Awake Goy Awake Goy says:
    June 10, 2022 at 4:47 pm

    Thank you Rosa for your kind donation and kind words.
    God Bless you.
    Angel Mason says:
    October 1, 2022 at 12:18 am

    multiculturalism in AUstralia – the highest per capita immigration in the world.

    Now these immigrants are elected by their own ethnic tribes into local council, state and federal Govt.

    What do we see – their primary focus is getting benefits for their own cultural groups.

    The worst are Lebanese – these are true arab gangsters who steal and cheat everywhere.

    Secondly they support their religion – so Indians fight for Hinduism Seiks, Muslims for Islam and on it goes.

    AUstralia is a basket cases of half breeds everywhere as our stupid white bitches breed with these brown and black savages.
    WE STAND WITH RUSSIA says:
    June 1, 2023 at 9:46 am

    THIS IS WHY WE STAND FOR RUSSIA
    RRNAK says:
    June 13, 2023 at 9:41 am

    THEY USED THE COVID COUP TO FURTHER THEIR REPLACEMENT AGENDA.

    THEY ARE INVADING OUR LANDS WITH THE COMPLICITY FO THE SAME SCUMBAGS WHO COMPLIED WITH ALL THE COVID DIKTATS AND TRIED TO FORCE THEM ON FREE PEOPLE.

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