UN Secretary-General on Ukraine visit, Russia launches rocket attack on Kiev

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Aniruddha Chakraborty
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UN Secretary-General on Ukraine visit, Russia launches rocket attack on Kiev

By a Staff Reporter:  Russia launched a missile attack on Kiev during the visit of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to Ukraine on Thursday evening. The missile strike took place in the western part of The Kiev. The mayor of Kiev said it was the first such attack in ukraine's capital. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's close aide Maikhaillo Podolyak tweeted: "Russia launched a missile strike in the center of the city of Kiev during Antonio Guterres' visit to Ukraine. It is not known if there were any casualties in the attack. However, a close associate of Guterres sent a message that they were safe. Kieve's mayor Vitaly Klitskowsko said two back-to-back missile strikes had been carried out in the Shevchenkovsky district of Kiev.