Today’s strikes in Kyiv targeted parks and roads used by commuters to get to work, a city resident said.
Speaking to BBC News, Yevhen Petrov described hearing the first explosion early this morning.
“They didn’t target military, or even civilian infrastructure,” he said.
“It was targeted [a] children’s park in the center of Kyiv at 8 o’clock in the morning, when a large number of people were just trying to get to their workplaces.
“Around 9am I was trying to get to my workplace and I heard two very loud, loud explosions not far away.”
Petrov said he arrived in central Kyiv to see a plume of smoke coming from one of the affected sites.
He said the attack “definitely” appeared to target civilians, because the location has many roads that connect different parts of the city and link important business centers and workplaces.
He added that one of the affected parks was “the kind of place where, especially in the morning … people can walk their dogs.”
He said the morning had felt similar to the early days of the invasion, but now civilians knew what to do in response.
“[The] the missiles will end one day, but we will be as we were before,” he said.