Russia launches another large-scale strike against Ukraine, injuring at least 5 in Kyiv

View of St. Sophia's Cathedral of Ukrainian Orthodox Church. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

At least five people were wounded in Russian strikes on Kyiv, city Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported in the early hours of May 8, as Moscow launched another large-scale attack on Ukraine.

Three people were injured in blasts in Kyiv’s Solomyanskyi district and two others were injured when drone wreckage fell onto the Sviatoshynskyi district, both west of the capital’s center, Klitschko said via his official Telegram channel. Two injured from the Sviatoshynskyi district were transferred to the hospital.

Klitschko later added that drone wreckage fell on a two-story building in the Sviatoshynskyi region, adding that explosions continued in Kyiv.

The city’s military administration said debris also fell in the central Shevchenkivskyi distirct as a result of the attacks. The first responders have been called to the scene.

A parked car caught fire in the yard of a residential building due to the falling debris; other debris fell on a seperate residential building, the roadway and on the runway of the Kyiv International Airport Zhuliany, according to the administration.

Kyiv Independent reporters had heard numerous explosions in Kyiv, with local officials saying that air defense systems were repelling the attacks.

While air raid alert has been on, an explosion was also heard following a missile attack that hit the Black Sea city of Odesa overnight, a local Ukrainian official said, and Ukrainian media reported sounds of explosions in the southern region of Kherson.

Russian forces fired X-22 missiles at the warehouse of a food company and at a recreational area on the Black Sea coast, according to Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesperson for the Odesa military administration. There were no reports of casualties.

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