VLADIMIR Putin launched a massive blitz targeting Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv in one of the war’s heaviest airstrikes.
At least 14 people were injured after the Russian forces launched at least 250 drones and 14 missiles in one of the biggest combined aerial attacks to date.
Massive fires were seen raging after the heavy blitz.
Plumes of smoke were seen billowing from civilian buildings in Ukraine’s night sky.
A fire broke out in apartments on the third and fourth floors of a five-storey residential building in the Solomianskyi district.
Another fire broke out on the balconies of a nine-storey building in the Obolonskyi district, Pravada reports.
Emergency workers and Kyiv’s fire teams were seen working to rescue people from the targeted sites.
Tymur Tkachenko, acting head of Kyiv military administration, said the debris of intercepted missiles and drones fell in at least four city districts of the Ukrainian capital early Saturday.
According to Tkachenko, six people required medical care after the attack, and two fires were sparked in the Solomianskyi district of Kyiv.
The State Emergency Service said: “Information on possible casualties is being confirmed.”;;
The air blitz came just hours after Russia and Ukraine began a major prisoner exchange, swapping hundreds of soldiers and civilians.
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