After heavy explosions in a number of major cities, an air alert has been issued in almost all parts of Ukraine. “A massive rocket attack on the area, there are dead and wounded,” said the military governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region around the industrial city of Dnipro, Valentin Resnichenko, on his Telegram channel on Monday. The authorities in Lviv, Khmelnytskyi and Zhytomyr also report impacts.
Resnichenko called on the residents of the area to stay in the bomb shelters. According to reports, not only the regional capital of Dnipro was hit, but also the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets, which are across the Dnipro River from the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. In the city of Zaporizhia there was also an air alert in the morning after the nightly rocket attacks.
According to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the rocket attacks have caused deaths and injuries. Russia is trying to annihilate Ukraine, Zelenskiy said on Telegram on Monday.
Officials said four people died in a rocket attack in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slavjansk in the Donetsk region. The impact happened in the city center, said Mayor Wadym Lyach. Heavy explosions can be heard in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, announced the mayor Andriy Sadovyj. The power went out in several parts of the city.