Russia launched air attack on the capital Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities on September 21, killing two people and injuring at least 18 people. The strike damaged infrastructure facilities across the country. Blasts were heard in in Kyiv and the surrounding region after an air raid alert. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said people were injured in Kyiv and Cherkasy regions and in the city of Kharkiv in the east during the attack that came early in the morning of September 21.