KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian attack on an aircraft factory in Kyiv, Ukraine, has left at least two people dead and seven others hurt, Ukrainian officials said Monday.
According to The Associated Press, the incident occurred Monday at the Antonov factory, the country’s largest aircraft manufacturing plant. Ukraine’s parliament tweeted that Russian shelling caused a large fire, killing two people and injuring seven.
⚡In #Kyiv, the russian occupiers fired a high-rise building and the @AntonovCompany Serial Production Plant.
— Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (@ua_parliament) March 14, 2022
According to preliminary data, two people died, 7 have injuries of varying severity.
About 70 people were evacuated.#ClosetheSkyoverUkraine#StopPutin #StopRussia pic.twitter.com/qobWiRkBAi
Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials said Russian artillery fire struck an apartment building in northern Kyiv, killing one person and injuring three others, the AP reported. Photos and videos from the scene showed rescue crews pulling survivors from the nine-story building as firefighters worked to put out the blaze, according to the news agency.
Firefighters rescuing people from the apartment building in Kyiv, badly damaged by Russian shelling on the morning of March 14.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 14, 2022
Video by the State Emergency Service. pic.twitter.com/kiqlSX3Tjo
⚡️UPDATE: The State Emergency Service now says one person was killed in the early morning shelling of the apartment block in Kyiv, not two as it earlier reported.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 14, 2022
The attacks came the same day that Ukrainian and Russian officials began a fourth round of high-level negotiations via video conference, the AP reported. Mykhailo Podolyak, an aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, tweeted that “communication is being held, yet it’s hard.”
The parties actively express their specified positions. Communication is being held yet it’s hard. The reason for the discord is too different political systems. 🇺🇦 is a free dialogue within the society & an obligatory consensus. 🇷🇺 is an ultimatum suppression of its own society pic.twitter.com/O00fnCd1WP
— Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) March 14, 2022
– The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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