Another military plant in Kyiv was attacked on Saturday, a day after Moscow warned of further attacks.
Russia stepped up its air strikes on Kyiv on Saturday, hitting another military factory a day after Moscow warned it would resume attacks after two weeks of relative calm in the Ukrainian capital.
Smoke rose from the Darnytsky district in the southeast of the capital after what Moscow said were “high-precision long-range attacks” on the weapons factory.
The district has more than one million inhabitants.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said authorities were still determining if anyone was killed or injured in the attack.
A heavy police and military presence has been deployed around the plant, a day after a similar attack on the Neptune missile factory, which Kyiv and Washington say sank the ship. Russia’s Black Sea navy on Thursday.
Russia, which used long-range sea-based missiles to attack the Vizar plant on Friday, said that the missile cruiser Moskva sank while being towed to port after shells exploded on board.
Saturday’s attack on the Ukrainian capital was one of the first since Russia’s invasion forces began withdrawing from areas around Kyiv last month, shifting the focus instead to winning the war. control of the area east of the Donbas.
According to Ukrainian parliament member Sviatoslav Yurash, Kyiv continues to come under missile attack from Russia.
“They attacked from long range, they attacked from planes, they fired missiles non-stop, even though they were pushed back across the border and they were defeated around Kyiv.
“The truth is that for Kyiv we always had the threat that the Russians would come back and try to take our capital.
On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that officials believe between 2,500 and 3,000 Ukrainian troops have died in the war with Russia so far.
Speaking to CNN, Zelenskyy compared those numbers to what he said were 19,000 to 20,000 Russian deaths.
Western officials estimate several thousand deaths on the Russian side. Moscow recently put a figure of about 1,350 soldiers killed in its own ranks.
