Ukraine war in the blog | Air alert in large parts of Ukraine – Injured in explosions in Kiev

Day 438 since the beginning of the war: Ukraine reports attacks on Kiev and Bakhmut. According to Russian information, people have been evacuated in southern Ukraine. All information in the blog.

2:34 am: According to Ukrainian sources, at least five people have been injured in Russian airstrikes on Kiev. Three people were injured in explosions in Kiev’s Solomjanskyj district, two others were wounded by wreckage from drones that fell on a two-storey building in the Sviatoshyn district, Mayor Vitali Klitschko writes in a telegram.

The attacks continued. Reuters eyewitnesses report numerous explosions in Kiev. Local authorities say the air defense systems repelled the attacks.

1.11 a.m.: Russia confirms evacuations from the areas around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. About 1,679 people, including 660 children, were taken from the areas surrounding the nuclear power plant to the temporary accommodation center in Berdyansk, the Moscow-installed governor of the Russian-controlled part of the Zaporizhia region, Yevgeny Balitsky, said on his Telegram channel. Berdyansk is a southeastern Ukrainian port city on the Sea of ​​Azov that has been occupied by Russia since the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

00:54: According to Ukrainian military reports, Russia is stepping up shelling of Bakhmut in order to capture the city by Tuesday. Russian forces have intensified shelling of the city with heavy weapons, are using more modern equipment and are redeploying their troops, Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ukraine’s ground forces commander, said after a frontline visit to Bakhmut. “The Russians still hope to capture the city by May 9. Our job is to thwart that.” The Ukrainian armed forces would do everything to prevent this. “Today it is important to make decisions as quickly as possible and to anticipate the actions of the enemy.” May 9 is Victory Day in Russia, marked with a military parade in Moscow marking the victory over Nazi Germany.

In large parts of Ukraine, including the capital Kiev, air alerts were briefly triggered on Sunday evening. Explosions were heard over the port city of Odessa in the south of the country, possibly from the use of anti-aircraft defenses, the state agency Ukrinform reported. After a short time, however, the all-clear was given nationwide.

00:36: According to Ukrainian sources, Russia is again attacking the Black Sea city of Odessa and the capital Kiev. “There was an enemy missile attack,” writes Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesman for the region’s military administration, on his Telegram channel. An explosion was heard after a rocket attack. Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne reports a fire following an explosion in Odessa and the sound of explosions in Kherson. Air raid alarm went off in Kyiv. “The air defense is working in the outskirts of Kiev,” announced the Kiev military administration on its Telegram channel shortly after midnight. “Stay in the shelters until the air raid alarm goes off!”

7:54 p.m.: According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the world must know “all the facts of Russian terror” against the Ukrainians. “It is important that the world talks about what the terrorist state is doing and how we are protecting lives,” said Zelenskyy on Sunday in his nightly video address. In this context he spoke of the constant Russian artillery raids on Cherson or Kharkiv, as well as “the terror against villages in the border areas of the Chernihiv and Sumy regions, hell in the Donetsk region”.