Explosions have been reported in Kyiv or the region around 7 pm today. Kyiv Oblast Governor Oleksiy Kuleba reported on Telegram early in the morning of Oct 15 that Russia had launched a missile at Kyiv Oblast.
Air raid alerts sound over the whole of Ukraine.
Kuleba did not disclose the location of the attack but said that rescue workers were on site.
The mortality rate of seriously wounded Russian soldiers is more than 50 percent.
The high rate is due to low quality of medical care and a reluctance of the Russian command to evacuate the seriously wounded to Russia, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said.
Massive coordinated missile strikes observed in Ukraine
Earlier, Russian forces conducted massive, coordinated missile strikes on over 20 Ukrainian cities. Putin claimed the strikes were in retaliation for the explosion on the Kerch Strait Bridge, likely in part to curry favor with “pro-war” factions.
Ukraine said 14 people were killed and 97 injured in Russian airstrikes on its cities on Monday. The attack comes within 48 hours of the explosion of a vital bridge linking Ukraine with Russia-annexed Crimea, for which Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed Ukraine.
The explosions were reported in Kyiv, Lviv, Ternopil and Zhytomyr in western Ukraine, Dnipro and Kremenchuk in the center, Zaporizhzhya in the south, and Kharkov in the east, Ukrainian officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke with US President Joe Biden on Monday, then wrote on Telegram that air defense was “the number 1 priority in our defense cooperation.”
At the end of Monday, India voted to reject Russia’s call for a secret vote in the UN General Assembly on a draft resolution condemning Moscow’s “illegal” annexation of four regions of Ukraine. Moscow’s call for a secret ballot was rejected after 107 UN member states, including India, voted in favor of a registered voter.
