Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv faces missile barrage after Zelenskyy targets Russian satellite network

<p>Kyiv mayor says attack has caused fires in at least two districts; Ukraine hits Russian rocket facility in long-range strike. What we know on day 1,636</p><p><strong>Russian forces launched a missile ⁠attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, sparking fires in ⁠at least ⁠two districts</strong> of the Ukrainian capital, the city’s mayor said. Kyiv’s ⁠military administration said one person had been injured. Witnesses reported explosions in the city amid air alerts that sounded after 2am.</p><p><strong>Mayor Vitali Klitschko, writing on ⁠Telegram, said falling ​debris had ‌caused a ‌fire</strong> in a non-residential part of ‌a northern suburb. Several cars were on fire, and another fire had broken out in an area just south of the city ‌centre, he said. Unofficial ​Telegram channels posted photos of what were described as market stalls ablaze. Russia ‌has in ​recent ​weeks been staging intensive air attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.</p><p><strong>Ukraine says long-range strikes hit a Russian military airfield and a rocket centre ⁠that supports ⁠Russia’s nascent Starlink-style satellite ​internet network</strong>. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday said Flamingo cruise missiles struck the rocket facility, about 900km from Ukraine’s border, as part of Kyiv’s campaign to pressure Moscow to end ⁠the war by targeting sites deep inside Russia.<strong>“It is important that Russia’s war potential be reduced. Peace is needed, and this must be evident in Russia</strong> – through concrete damage ⁠to specific facilities,” Zelenskyy wrote on X. He said the airfield hosted aircraft used to attack Ukraine.</p><p>Ukraine’s armed forces said direct hits were ‌recorded at the airfield in Russia’s ‌Nizhny Novgorod region and the Progress rocket centre in Samara region, sparking fires ‌at both sites. <strong>The Samara plant produces rockets used to launch satellites for