Two Ukranian motorists are lucky to be alive after they were inches away from a ballistic missile falling directly on their car as they were driving on a Kyiv motorway.
Explosions rattled Kyiv during daylight on Monday as Russian ballistic missiles took aim at the Ukrainian capital, hours after a more common nighttime barrage of the city by drones and cruise missiles.
Russian forces fired 11 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv about 11.30am according to Ukraine’s chief of staff, Valerii Zaluzhnyi. All of them were shot down, he said, and puffs of white smoke could be seen in the blue sky over the city from street level.
Debris from the intercepted missiles fell in Kyiv’s central and northern districts during the morning, landing in the middle of traffic on a city road and also starting a fire on the roof of a building, the Kyiv military administration said. At least one civilian was reported hurt.
![In the video, the missile drops down on to the middle of the road, narrowly missing two white cars. Photo / @AlexPanchenko2 / Twitter](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/5LANPCJCNZE3TLU3ZID3LBK5TQ.jpg?auth=cf02f1bde051a3e2a94a06f146082b75f4ab6279ca129483b9f9098d832fa8ac&width=16&height=9&quality=70&smart=true)