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Russian strikes around Kyiv wipe out hotel and electricity in Chernihiv, an airport in Vasylkiv

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A column of smoke rises from burning gas tanks at an air base in Vasylkiv, Ukraine on March 12. (Thomas Peter/Reuters)

Russian missile and air strikes induced harm to the north and south of the Ukrainian capital within the early hours of Saturday, in line with native officers.

In Chernihiv, some 100 kilometers north of Kyiv, the resort Ukraine — a landmark within the metropolis — was hit in a single day.

“I’m right here now. There is no such thing as a resort anymore,” Vyacheslav Chaus, head of Chernihiv area administration, stated Saturday.

The enemy continues to launch air and missile strikes on the town of Chernihiv. Civilians are dying, many individuals are being injured. The enemy shells civilian infrastructure, the place there is no such thing as a army,” he stated. 

Chernihiv has been surrounded by Russian forces for greater than every week and video from the town exhibits widespread harm from missiles and airstrikes.

Chaus added that the town has “no electrical energy, virtually no water, gasoline, and warmth,” and whereas efforts to revive electrical energy on Friday have been profitable “the enemy hit an electrical energy community once more.”

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Social media video from Vasylkiv, south of Kyiv, confirmed a gas dump on hearth after a strike within the early hours of Saturday, and the army airfield there seems to have been closely broken. 

Nataliia Balasynovych, the city’s mayor, stated on Fb: “At this time at about 7 a.m. enemy forces shelled the town of Vasylkiv. Eight missiles hit, shelled the airport. On account of the missile strikes, the airport was fully destroyed, the runway was destroyed.”

She added that an “ammunition depot additionally detonated. Ammunition remains to be detonating as a result of one of many missiles hit the ammunition depot. The warehouse with fuels and lubricants was additionally destroyed. In consequence, the capability of our airport has been fully eradicated.”

The Russian Ministry of Protection had stated earlier that a high-precision long-range weapon struck the army airfield in Vasylkiv.

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