Five people have been killed and five others injured in a Russian shelling of the Kiev television tower today, the Ukrainian State Emergency Service reported on its Facebook page.
Before the attack, Russia warned the citizens of Kiev of further shelling of the city and asked them to leave their homes, according to a Russian Defense Ministry statement.
The explosions caused some channels to stop broadcasting their signal, Efe confirmed.
“We warn Ukrainian citizens, used by Ukrainian nationalists to carry out provocations against Russia, as well as Kiev residents living near relay nodes, to leave their homes,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.
From Kiev, the adviser to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Anton Gerashchenko, reported that Russian forces attacked the Kiev television tower.
“Putin’s Nazis just bombed the TV tower,” Gerashchenko wrote on his Telegram channel. “The enemy is attacking the capital. The television tower has been damaged by two missiles, according to the first reports,” reported the state administration of the city of Kiev.
The substation that supplies electricity to the tower, as well as the hardware of the television itself, have been hit and damaged.
In Kiev, security has been reinforced, and as Efe has been able to verify, they have put anti-tank barriers on the main streets, especially at the entrances to government buildings, and trucks have arrived with sand to make sandbags.
Some have placed them on the access slope to the seat of government in Plaza de la Independencia.
Units of soldiers have been seen walking through the city, apparently heading towards Parliament and the government to protect it. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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