July 30 (Reuters) – Russia was striking the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv with ballistic missiles in the early hours of Thursday, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a Telegram post, asking people to seek shelter.
Multiple explosions were heard in the city, according to a Reuters witness. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had warned on Wednesday that a massive Russian attack on Ukraine was likely.
A few non-residential sites in Kyiv caught fire, Klitschko said.
Zelenskiy said that the safety of Ukrainians depended on the willingness of allies to provide anti-missile defences, as he returned from the United States where he said President Donald Trump agreed to give Ukraine licenses for Patriot missiles.
(Reporting by Jekaterīna Golubkova and Oleksandr Kozhukhar; Editing by Rosalba O’Brien)
