A loud explosion was heard this afternoon at the Kiev railway station was due to the fall of a Russian missile that was intercepted and destroyed by the Ukrainian anti-aircraft defensewithout causing casualties, but which broke an important heating pipe in the city, reported the adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, Anton Geráshenko.
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“An important heating pipeline in Kiev was damaged as a result of the missile attack in the area of the central railway station. A part of the city could be deprived of heating tonight,” he wrote on Telegram.
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The Unian agency, for its part, said that a Russian projectile fell in the area of the station’s underpass between the Ibis hotel and the station building, with no casualties reported.
Shortly after, Gerashenko published a clarification about the explosion at the station on his Telegram channel. “Our heroic air defense shot down a cruise missile of the Russian fascists, which was intended for one of the control centers,” he wrote.
Debris from the downed rocket damaged the main heating, but he said “it will be repaired in the morning.”
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 URGENT Explosion at the Train Station in Kiev
A large heating main was torn apart by a missile strike near the railway station in #kyivUkrainian media report pic.twitter.com/HFab95GpQU— Ray (@Rayyniel) March 2, 2022
The Ukrainian official justified the activation of anti-aircraft defense because, he said, “if this missile had hit a target somewhere in the center of Kiev, the casualties and destruction would have been horrendous.”
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