Russian strikes round Kyiv wipe out lodge and electrical energy in Chernihiv, an airport in Vasylkiv

Russian missile and air strikes triggered harm to the north and south of the Ukrainian capital within the early hours of Saturday, based on native officers.

In Chernihiv, some 100 kilometers north of Kyiv, the lodge Ukraine — a landmark within the metropolis — was hit in a single day.

“I’m right here now. There isn’t any lodge anymore,” Vyacheslav Chaus, head of Chernihiv area administration, stated Saturday.

Chernihiv has been surrounded by Russian forces for greater than every week and video from the town exhibits widespread harm from missiles and airstrikes.

Chaus added that the town has “no electrical energy, nearly no water, fuel, and warmth,” and whereas efforts to revive electrical energy on Friday have been profitable “the enemy hit an electrical energy community once more.”

Social media video from Vasylkiv, south of Kyiv, confirmed a gas dump on hearth after a strike within the early hours of Saturday, and the army airfield there seems to have been closely broken. 

Nataliia Balasynovych, the city’s mayor, stated on Fb: “In the present day at about 7 a.m. enemy forces shelled the town of Vasylkiv. Eight missiles hit, shelled the airport. Because of the missile strikes, the airport was utterly destroyed, the runway was destroyed.”

She added that an “ammunition depot additionally detonated. Ammunition continues to be detonating as a result of one of many missiles hit the ammunition depot. The warehouse with fuels and lubricants was additionally destroyed. Because of this, the capability of our airport has been utterly eradicated.”

The Russian Ministry of Protection had stated earlier that a high-precision long-range weapon struck the army airfield in Vasylkiv.