Air raid alert sound in Kiev, 9 Ukrainian regions

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Agencies
4 Jun 2023 09:10

The online air raid warning map of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation shows that an air raid alert had been declared throughout Ukraine.

Smoke rises in the sky over Kiev after a drone attack, Ukraine, on May 28, 2023 (Reuters)

Data from the online air raid warning map of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation showed on Sunday that air raid warnings have been issued in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, as well as nine regions of the country, as per Sputnik.

According to the map, the alarm in the Chernihiv and Sumy regions was sounded at 00:14 (21:14 GMT). At 1:01, another alarm was announced in the Poltava region, half an hour later in the Dnipro and Kharkov regions, and a little later in the Mykolaiv, Odessa, Cherkasy, and Kirovohrad regions.

At 1:48, an air raid alert was sounded in Kiev. Warnings were also in effect in the territories of Zaporozhye and Kherson regions controlled by Kiev.

Later in the day, the online air raid warning map showed that an air raid alert had been declared throughout Ukraine.

In a related context, the head of the press center of the Vostok group, Oleg Chekhov, confirmed that Russian armed forces, using Solntsepek heavy flamethrower systems, have destroyed a Ukrainian military outpost near Gulyaipol, as per Sputnik.

Chekhov added that the Lancet suicide drones destroyed an artillery base in Yekaterinovka.

Toward the south of Donetsk, the artillery units of the Vostok group destroyed an ammunition depot and manpower in the Shevchenko region, a Ukrainian stronghold in the Fremovka region, temporary deployment points in the Velikaya Novoselka and Poltavka regions, as well as a mortar crew in the Novomikhailovka region, Chekhov pointed out.

Elsewhere, the head of the press center indicated that the Malka self-propelled mortar launchers and the Russian Uragan missile launcher systems hit two temporary deployment points of the Ukrainian army in the Gulyaipol region, which led to the destruction of an ammunition depot, vehicles, and manpower.

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