As Ukraine celebrates Europe Day, as does the European Union, and the President of the European Commission is visiting Kiev, dozens of Russian rockets were fired at Ukrainian cities, and a massive explosion reportedly rocked the Ukrainian capital in the early hours. morning, Tuesday.

“Very loud explosion in Kyiv!” This was announced by People’s Deputy of Ukraine Oleksiy Goncharenko on his channel on the Telegram social network.

According to the latest information, fragments of missiles shot down by Ukrainian air defenses fell on a residential building in the Goloseevsky district in southwestern Kiev, causing minor damage, Kiev Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said in his own post. The wreckage was also found on a street in the Shevchenkovsky district in the center of Kyiv, which is a frequent target of Russian shelling.

There was a bombing warning both in Kyiv and in most of free Ukraine, as early as in the morning in May.

Ukraine said its air defenses shot down 23 of 25 cruise missiles fired, mostly at Kyiv overnight, with no casualties reported. It was the second night in a series of major Russian airstrikes and the fifth this month.

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, posted on Twitter a photo in which she arrives at the Kiev railway station by train.

“I’m happy to be back in Kyiv. Where the values ​​we hold dear are protected every day,” he wrote, calling the city “the right place to celebrate Europe Day.”

Source: RIA Novosti, Reuters, Ukrinform