01:52Locals and emergency workers were seen assessing the damage at locations around Kiev on Tuesday, following a number of reported strikes in the morning.
Footage shows two collapsed buildings and a block with broken windows, along with residents clearing glass and debris from the street outside. A vehicle with a broken windscreen is also visible, along with a temporary tent set up next to a pile of fresh building materials.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that a rescue operation was continuing following 'another Russian attack'. He claimed that 'ordinary residential buildings' had been targeted in Kiev, Kharkov and Pavlograd, adding that 22 had been injured in the capital, with five killed and over 50 injured in Kharkov.
Moscow did not comment directly on the specific allegations about strikes and casualties. On Tuesday, Russia's Defence Ministry reported that its armed forces had conducted a 'group strike by high-precision long-range air- and ground- based weapons at Ukrainian military-industrial complex facilities producing missiles and its parts, ammunition, and explosives'.
Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitri Peskov was asked during a media briefing on Tuesday if strikes reported by Ukraine on both Kiev and Kharkov were 'the Russian army’s response to the latest shelling of Donetsk'.
"No," he said. "We continue our special military operation, and our military does not strike social facilities and residential neighbourhoods and does not strike civilians, unlike the Kiev regime. This is what fundamentally distinguishes our military from that of the Kiev regime."
Both countries have repeatedly denied targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure during the ongoing conflict.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
Damaged buildings, clean-up operation around Kiev in aftermath of reported strikes
Locals and emergency workers were seen assessing the damage at locations around Kiev on Tuesday, following a number of reported strikes in the morning.
Footage shows two collapsed buildings and a block with broken windows, along with residents clearing glass and debris from the street outside. A vehicle with a broken windscreen is also visible, along with a temporary tent set up next to a pile of fresh building materials.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that a rescue operation was continuing following 'another Russian attack'. He claimed that 'ordinary residential buildings' had been targeted in Kiev, Kharkov and Pavlograd, adding that 22 had been injured in the capital, with five killed and over 50 injured in Kharkov.
Moscow did not comment directly on the specific allegations about strikes and casualties. On Tuesday, Russia's Defence Ministry reported that its armed forces had conducted a 'group strike by high-precision long-range air- and ground- based weapons at Ukrainian military-industrial complex facilities producing missiles and its parts, ammunition, and explosives'.
Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitri Peskov was asked during a media briefing on Tuesday if strikes reported by Ukraine on both Kiev and Kharkov were 'the Russian army’s response to the latest shelling of Donetsk'.
"No," he said. "We continue our special military operation, and our military does not strike social facilities and residential neighbourhoods and does not strike civilians, unlike the Kiev regime. This is what fundamentally distinguishes our military from that of the Kiev regime."
Both countries have repeatedly denied targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure during the ongoing conflict.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.
Locals and emergency workers were seen assessing the damage at locations around Kiev on Tuesday, following a number of reported strikes in the morning.
Footage shows two collapsed buildings and a block with broken windows, along with residents clearing glass and debris from the street outside. A vehicle with a broken windscreen is also visible, along with a temporary tent set up next to a pile of fresh building materials.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that a rescue operation was continuing following 'another Russian attack'. He claimed that 'ordinary residential buildings' had been targeted in Kiev, Kharkov and Pavlograd, adding that 22 had been injured in the capital, with five killed and over 50 injured in Kharkov.
Moscow did not comment directly on the specific allegations about strikes and casualties. On Tuesday, Russia's Defence Ministry reported that its armed forces had conducted a 'group strike by high-precision long-range air- and ground- based weapons at Ukrainian military-industrial complex facilities producing missiles and its parts, ammunition, and explosives'.
Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitri Peskov was asked during a media briefing on Tuesday if strikes reported by Ukraine on both Kiev and Kharkov were 'the Russian army’s response to the latest shelling of Donetsk'.
"No," he said. "We continue our special military operation, and our military does not strike social facilities and residential neighbourhoods and does not strike civilians, unlike the Kiev regime. This is what fundamentally distinguishes our military from that of the Kiev regime."
Both countries have repeatedly denied targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure during the ongoing conflict.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.