Russia stepped up airstrikes on Kyiv on Saturday, hitting another military factory a day after Moscow warned it would renew attacks following 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” strikes on the armaments plant.
The district has more than one million inhabitants.
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Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said authorities were still determining whether anyone had been killed or injured in the attack.
A heavy police and military presence had been deployed around the factory, the day after a similar strike on a plant that produced the Neptune missiles, which Kyiv and Washington say sunk Russia’s Black Sea naval flagship on Thursday.
Russia, which used sea-based long-range missiles to hit the Vizar plant on Friday, said that the Moskva missile cruiser sank while being towed back to port after ammunition exploded on board.
According to Ukrainian member of parliament Sviatoslav Yurash, Kyiv continues to be attacked by rockets from Russia.
“They attack from the long-range, they attack from aircraft, they have been firing rockets non-stop, even though they were pushed back across the border and they were defeated around Kyiv.
