Ukraine today claimed to have shot down 19 of the 31 drones launched by Russia overnight, mainly over frontline areas, and accused Moscow of also directing attacks against the capital Kiev in the morning.
“Nineteen Shahed-136/131 attack drones were destroyed. The Russian occupiers sent most of the attack drones to the front areas,” the air force stated, adding that Russia also used several missiles.
For his part, the head of the military administration of the Ukrainian capital, Sergiy Popko, stated on Telegram that “after a long pause of 52 days, the enemy resumed its missile attacks on Kiev!”
The attacks were carried out from the territory of Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula that the Kremlin annexed in 2014, from the Black Sea and from Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kursk and Belgorod, in Russia, the Air Force said in the same network.
Two missiles fell in a field between two residential areas in the Kiev region, said the head of the regional military administration, Ruslan Kravchenko, adding that five buildings suffered damage to windows and roofs.
According to journalists from the AFP news agency, two loud explosions were heard in the center of Kiev and two lines of white smoke were seen in the sky, shortly before the air warning sirens sounded, but no victims or victims were reported. material destruction this morning.
Ukraine expects an increase in such attacks this winter, after last year’s bombings against its energy grid left thousands of people without heat or electricity for long periods.
Source: Ambito
