Russia shoots Ukraine with hyperschallrakets and 700 drones

Russia attacked Ukraine with rockets and a record number of drones at night. A total of 728 drones of the originally Iranian type Shahed and his dummies were launched towards Ukraine, the Ukrainian Air Force said.

In addition, there were seven CH-101 cruise missiles (NATO classification: Kodiak) and six air-based hyper-sheled rockets of the Kin scarf. More than 700 air objects were repelled, it said. The previous “record” of Russian drones in one night was a little more than 500.

The Wolyn region in the west of the country was also under fire. It was the heaviest enemy attack from the air since the beginning of the war, said the mayor of the regional capital Luzk, Ihor Polishchuk, on his telegram channel. Accordingly, there have been fires at a company and in a garage settlement. However, the dead were not to be complained about, he added.

According to the Wolyner military governor Iwan Rudnyzkyj, around 50 drones and 5 rockets have entered the region’s airspace. “In fact, everything flew to Luzk,” he wrote. There was no further details about the extent of the damage.

There were also impacts in other regions. In the early morning, two people were injured in Cherson in South Ukrain. In the area of ​​Kyiv, a woman had to be taken to the hospital after breast injuries by drone fire. Fires broke out in several places in the Kiev area.