Russia Hits Kyiv Region a Fifth Straight Day

A fifth day of attacks, and now in daylight

Russian forces struck Kyiv and cities around the Ukrainian capital for a fifth straight day on Monday, with near round-the-clock air raid sirens disrupting daily life for millions, according to the Washington Times, Newsmax and the New York Post. The Guardian reported eight air raid alerts had sounded in Kyiv by lunchtime Monday.

Daytime attacks were uncommon earlier in the war. Businesses are halting operations until alerts pass, and residents are left deciding whether to stay indoors, take shelter or ignore the warnings, the Guardian reported.

The numbers Zelensky gave

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Russia fired "almost 1,500 drones of all types in these four days alone — about 800 of them jet-powered," and that the jet models now account for more than half of the drones Russia is using to wear the country down.

Empty shelves in Kyiv

Russian strikes on supply warehouses around Kyiv have left some supermarket shelves bare, the Los Angeles Times, Washington Times and Breitbart reported. The Guardian described the warehouse campaign as retaliation for Ukrainian strikes on the Wildberries and Ozon distribution chains inside Russia.

The deadliest single strike of the run

A Geran-4, the latest jet-powered model, struck an ammunition dump at Myla, a village 15 miles west of Kyiv, on Thursday. The Guardian reported Monday that 38 people were killed as the strike set off hours of secondary explosions, destroying warehouses and damaging nearby homes — one of the deadliest single attacks of the war. An earlier Guardian report on the same strike put the toll at at least 37; the count has moved, and both figures belong to the same event.