Kyiv, March 12: Eight Russian missiles hit Ukraine’s Vasylkiv city on Saturday while a hotel in Chernihiv was also hit overnight, local officials said. The Vasylkiv city Mayor, Nataliia Balasynovych said on Facebook, “Today at about 7 a.m. enemy forces shelled the city of Vasylkiv. Eight missiles hit, shelled the airport.
As a result of the missile strikes, the airport was completely destroyed, the runway was destroyed.” She added that an “ammunition depot also detonated. Ammunition is still detonating because one of the missiles hit the ammunition depot. The warehouse with fuels and lubricants was also destroyed.
As a result, the capacity of our airport has been completely eliminated, “as reported by the CNN. The Russian Ministry of Defense had earlier confirmed that a high-precision long-range weapon struck the military airfield in Vasylkiv. A hotel in Chernihiv,north of Kyiv, was also was hit overnight.
“I am here now. There is no hotel anymore,” head of Chernihiv region administration,Vyacheslav Chaus confirmed as reported by CNN.
“The enemy continues to launch air and missile strikes on the city of Chernihiv. Civilians are dying, many people are being injured. The enemy shells civilian infrastructure, where there is no military,” he said.
Chaus added that the city has “no electricity, almost no water, gas, and heat,” and while efforts to restore electricity on Friday were successful “the enemy hit an electricity network again.” UNI
