KYIV: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned on Sunday (Nov 24) Ukraine must strengthen its air defences to guard folks after its air defence items shot down 50 of 73 Russian drones launched in a single day over many areas.
“An air alert has been sounded nearly day by day throughout Ukraine this week,” Zelenskyy mentioned on Telegram messenger.
Over the previous week Russia used greater than 800 guided aerial bombs, about 460 assault drones, and greater than 20 missiles of assorted varieties, Zelenskyy mentioned.
“Ukraine shouldn’t be a testing floor for weapons. Ukraine is a sovereign and impartial state. However Russia nonetheless continues its efforts to kill our folks, unfold concern and panic, and weaken us,” he mentioned.
The Ukrainian army mentioned earlier on Sunday that air defence items had destroyed greater than 10 Russian drones that had been focusing on Kyiv in an in a single day assault.
There have been no instant experiences of injury or accidents on account of the assault, Kyiv’s army administration posted on Telegram.
Reuters witnesses heard explosions in Kyiv in what gave the impression of air defence items in operation.
“The UAVs (unmanned aerial automobiles) had been flying in several instructions in the direction of Kyiv,” mentioned Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s army administration. “The air raid alert within the metropolis lasted for greater than three hours.”
There was no instant remark from Russia concerning the assault.
