- The attack has also hit cities in southern and eastern Ukraine.
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Russian kamikaze drones sow terror in the streets of Kyiv again and Putin brings his troops closer to just 150 kilometers from the capital
Russia maintains its strategy of fear and this Monday it once again punished the civilian population of Kyiv with an attack with kamikaze drones, which have spread terror since early in the morning in various parts of the Ukrainian capital.
One of those attacks caused the partial collapse of a residential building in the Shevchenko district in which about twenty people were trapped under the rubble. At least three people have died, according to the Ukrainian presidency.
The scenes of panic were repeated in many places in the center of the Ukrainian capital, with people who were going to work running through the streets in search of a safe place under the noise of the explosions.
"Dear free world, how are you starting your Monday? With a coffee? A workout? We in Kyiv start by sitting in shelters writhing from loud explosions as Russia strikes the city with kamikaze drones," Olga Rudenko posted. editor of The Kyiv Independent newspaper, showing the feelings of the citizens. It is the second attack of this type that Kyiv has suffered in less than a week.
The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, has condemned the attack through a Telegram message: "During the night and in the morning, the enemy terrorizes the civilian population. Drones and kamikaze missiles attack all of Ukraine. In Kyiv, a building has been attacked The enemy may strike our cities, but he will not be able to break us. The occupiers are only awaiting just punishment and the doom of future generations."
But the kamikaze drone attacks were not limited to Kyiv on Monday, they were also repeated in cities in eastern and southern Ukraine, including the Odesa region. The Ukrainian Air Force claimed to have shot down dozens of Shahed-136 drones as well as cruise missiles. The target of these attacks in the south and east of the country has been "crucial infrastructure" such as the power grid. Several "hundreds of towns" have been "without electricity" this Monday due to Russian attacks, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
The destruction of Ukraine's electrical and energy system is one of Vladimir Putin's strategies to break the Ukrainian resistance to the arrival of the harsh winter. The mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, has denounced him after the attack suffered on Monday in his city: "The Russians want to create a humanitarian disaster. They want the people of Kyiv to die without heating or electricity."
Russian troops begin to arrive in Belarus
This weekend the first contingents of Russian troops, displaced by rail, began to arrive in Belarus. The Belarusian Ministry of Defense awaits the arrival of around 9,000 servicemen from the Russian army to form a joint military group.
From the Ukrainian government, this transfer of Russian troops to Belarus is viewed with distrust and it is feared that it may respond to a Kremlin strategy to launch an attack on Kyiv. The Belarusian border is only 150 kilometers from the Ukrainian capital, much more vulnerable to an attack from this flank.
In some videos of the troop transfer that have been spread on social networks, you can see trains loaded with Russian armored vehicles that have white triangles painted by hand on the sides. That symbol, like the famous Z, could already be seen in early February on the military vehicles that Moscow moved to the Ukrainian border before launching the invasion.
On the other hand, the fighting continues in the Donbas, where the Ukrainian army is now encountering more resistance. The military spokesman of the self-proclaimed republic of Lugansk, Andrei Marochko, has assured that Kyiv has been forced to send reinforcements to the city of Bakhmut to contain the pro-Russian attacks against that city of great strategic importance.
Russia restricts airspace in the Arctic
Coinciding with the start of NATO's nuclear deterrence maneuvers in northern Europe on Monday, which will last until the end of the month, Russia has closed the airspace in seven areas around the Barents Sea and the Kara Sea. , In the Arctic.
The airspace restriction affects the environment of the Nova Zembla archipelago, the scene where the Soviet Union tested its first atomic weapons and where it carried out more than 200 nuclear tests before the fall of the USSR.
The Czar's Bomb was also detonated in this archipelago on October 30, 1961, at an altitude of about 4,000 meters. It is the largest man-made explosion to date. In social networks, accounts related to the Kremlin suggest that Moscow could be preparing a new nuclear test.
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