WRAP: Missiles rain down on Ukraine's cities as Putin orders revenge for Crimea bridge

Record ID: 1693074

  • Title: WRAP: Missiles rain down on Ukraine's cities as Putin orders revenge for Crimea bridge
  • Date: 10th October 2022
  • Summary: STRETCHER CARRIER TO AMBULANCE PARAMEDICS LOADING STRETCHER INTO AMBULANCE VARIOUS OF FIRE CREWS WORKING TO EXTINGUISH BURNING VEHICLES
  • Embargoed: 24th October 2022 14:30
  • Keywords: blasts crimea explosions kyiv lviv missiles putin ukraine
  • Location: KYIV, LVIV AND ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE; ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA; BRUSSELS, BELGIUM; MINSK, BELARUS
  • City: KYIV, LVIV AND ZAPORIZHZHIA, UKRAINE; ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA; BRUSSELS, BELGIUM; MINSK, BELARUS
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts,Editors' Choice
  • Reuters ID: LVA006114810102022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
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    Russia launched its most widespread air strikes since the start of the Ukraine war on Monday (October 10), raining cruise missiles on busy cities during rush hour and knocking out power and heat, in what President Vladimir Putin called revenge for a blown up bridge.
    Missiles tore into busy intersections, parks and tourist sites in the centre of the capital Kyiv.
    Explosions were reported in Lviv, Ternopil and Zhytomyr in western Ukraine, Dnipro and Kremenchuk in central Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia in the south and Kharkiv in the east. Ukrainian officials said at least 10 people were killed and scores injured, and swathes of the country left without power.
    Thousands of residents raced to bomb shelters as air raid sirens rang out through the day. The barrage of dozens of cruise missiles fired from air, land and sea was the biggest wave of air strikes to hit locations away from the front line, at least since the initial volleys on the war's first day, Feb. 24.
    "The Kyiv regime, with its actions, has put itself on the same level as international terrorist organisations. With the most odious groups. To leave such acts without a response is simply impossible," Putin said in a televised address.
    The Russian leader said he had ordered "massive" long range strikes and he threatened more strikes in future if Ukraine hits Russian territory.
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the attacks were deliberately timed to kill people, as well as to knock out Ukraine's power grid. His prime minister said 11 major infrastructure targets were hit in eight regions, leaving swaths of the country with no electricity, water or heat.
    "They are trying to destroy us and wipe us off the face of the earth," Zelenskiy said.
    (Production: Thomas Holdstock)
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