Morning attack: explosions rang out in Kharkiv, Odesa, Kyiv and other cities

Missile attack. Photo: Depositphotos

On the morning of August 26, Russia attacked Ukraine with missiles and drones. Explosions rang out in a number of Ukrainian cities.

This is reported by the local authorities.

Several explosions rang out in Kharkiv, Mayor Ihor Terekhov and Oleh Syniehubov, the head of RMA, reported about it — ballistic weapons were probably used.

Explosions were also reported in Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, Kropyvnytskyi, Vinnytsia and Khmelnytskyi and Poltava.

At 8:37 a.m., Odesa Mayor Ihor Trukhanov wrote that an explosion was also heard in the city. He asked the townspeople to stay in shelters.

In the Poltava region, the Russians hit an industrial facility. This was reported by the head of the regional military administration, Filip Pronin.

«The enemy targeted an industrial facility in Poltava region. Five people were injured,» he said.

The mayor of Lutsk, Ihor Polishchuk, reports on the work of the Air Defense Forces in the city. Later it became known that an infrastructure object in the city was damaged as a result of an enemy attack.

«Currently, there is information about one dead person,» added city mayor Ihor Polishchuk.

It should be noted that in the morning it became known that the Russian Tu-95ms aircraft lined up in combat formations and took a southeasterly direction towards the Caspian Sea. The takeoff of 11 Tu-95 aircraft from various airfields was noted. There were also launches from the «Kalibr» carriers in the Black Sea.

It will be recalled that during the day, from August 25 to 26, the Russian military shelled an educational institution, administrative buildings and a bakery in the Kherson region. A person died as a result of the blows.