Russia launched Saturday morning its most intense drone assault on Ukraine for the reason that starting of itsĀ full-scale invasion in 2022, concentrating on the Ukrainian capital, army officers mentioned.
āKyiv was the principle goal,ā wrote Ukrainian Air Drive Commander Mykola Oleshchuk, on his Telegram channel.
In complete, Russia launched round 75 Iranian-made Shahed drones towards Ukraine, of which 71 had been destroyed by air protection, Ukraineās armed forces mentioned.
The assault was āprobably the most large air assault by drones on Kyiv,ā mentioned Serhii Popko, head of the Kyiv metropolis administration, noting that air protection shot down greater than 60 air targets over the capital all through the morning.
The assault on Kyiv started at four a.m. native time, persevering with in waves for over six hours, and induced energy outages in 77 residential buildings and 120 establishments, in accordance with Popko.
No less than 5 civilians had been wounded within the hours-long drone assault on Kyiv, which noticed a number of buildings broken, together with a kindergarten.
The wounded included an 11-year-old baby, in accordance with Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko.
āOur troopers shot down many of the drones. Sadly, not all,ā Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram. āHowever we proceed to work to strengthen our air protection and shoot down extra,ā he mentioned.
Along with Kyiv, the Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv and Kirovohrad areas had been additionally focused.
The assault was carried out on the morning of Holodomor Memorial Day which commemorates the man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine that killed hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians from 1932 to 1933, and is marked on the fourth Saturday in November.