At least five dead in bombings on both sides of the Russian border

After strikes near kyiv and Zaporizhia, a series of missile strikes hit the city of Chernigiv, in northern Ukraine, this Friday.

“One person killed, 4 injured,” Dmytro Brijinskyi, head of the military administration of the city of Chernigiv, said on Telegram, specifying that the toll was provisional. An AFP journalist on site heard three loud explosions in the city in the afternoon.

“Today, the enemy launched a triple missile attack on a residential area on the outskirts of Chernigiv,” Vyatcheslav Chauss, the governor of the eponymous region of the affected city, explained on Telegram. “Search and rescue operations are continuing,” he said.