Explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital on Saturday (26.02.2022), which, according to local authorities, is due to Russia’s attempt to attack a thermal power plant, while in Vasilkov, about 37 kilometers from the city, a tough battle, according to local authorities. of the Armed Forces.
On Saturday, Ukrainian forces claimed to have repelled a nighttime “attack” by Russian forces on one of their positions on Victory Street, one of the main roads in Kiev.
“The attack was rejected,” the Ukrainian military said in a message on its Facebook account, without giving further details about the exact location of these battles.
“Explosions in Kiev. What is known?” wrote the Kiev city administration on its Telegram account.
He explained that “the enemy is trying to attack the CHP-6 plant near Troichina” north of the capital.
He stressed that “the armed forces are fighting.”
Air raid alerts sounded in the city, asking citizens to enter shelters.
The combined thermal power plant CHP-6 is the most powerful combined thermal and cogeneration plant in Ukraine.
There were also attacks near the metro station Beresteiska in the capital.
“Currently, they are striking the military unit near the Beresteiska metro station,” the State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine wrote on its Telegram account.
Fighting in Vasilkov
He added – quoting the private ICTV channel – that more than 50 bullets were heard and explosions were heard in the Chulyavka neighborhood and the zoo in just ten minutes.
The same source also said, 37 kilometers to the southwest, resistance continues in Vasilkov, where the Russians are trying to land paratroopers.
“Fierce fighting is taking place in the city of Vasilkov in the Kiev region, where the occupiers are trying to take down a landing team,” the Armed Forces Command said on its official Facebook account.
He said that at 01:30 am (10:30 GMT), a Su-27 fighter of the Ukrainian Armed Forces “successfully attacked the IL-76 MD military transport aircraft of the Russian occupying forces and destroyed the enemy.”
Not long ago, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, stated that the night would be difficult, and predicted that Russia would try to storm Kiev and elsewhere.
“I can say absolutely frankly: tonight will be more difficult than today. Many cities of our state are under attack: Chernigov, Sumy, Kharkov, Donbass, in the south. Particular attention to Kiev: they cannot lose the capital,” he told the armed forces in a new letter to the nation published by his office on Telegram.
“Tonight, on all fronts, the enemy will use all available forces to break our resistance: vile, cruel and inhuman. Tonight they will storm,” he said.
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