Day 229 of the Invasion of Ukraine: Bulgarian connection in the Explosion of the Crimean Bridge

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Explosions in the center of Kyiv. Fighter jets fly over the city

World media reported explosions in the center of Kyiv, a day after the Russian president accused Ukraine of a terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge.

Three loud explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, AFP reported, after a live BBC broadcast from the city was interrupted by the sound of fighter jets flying over.

Reuters quoted the city's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, as saying there had been several explosions in the central Shevchenko district. According to an adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, quoted by UNIAN, rescuers are already working in the area of ​​one of the strikes in the capital.

There are dead and wounded in the rocket attacks on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv this morning, the Ukrainian emergency service reported, quoted by Reuters.

These are the first strikes against Kyiv in months, and even during the active Russian offensive against the city in the first month of the war, the city center was rarely hit.

This morning, a residential building was hit again in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia. The Ukrainian regional administration and the office of President Zelensky are distributing a night photo of a damaged building in the center of the city, while in another part of it the cleanup continues after a similar attack yesterday, in which 13 people died. According to the Ukrainian agency UNIAN, 1 person was killed in the new attack, and 5 others, including a child, were injured.

Zelensky's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, described it as evidence that peaceful Ukrainians were being attacked by a state sponsor of...