Russia launched a barrage of drones and cruise and ballistic missiles at Kyiv, in addition to different cities throughout the nation.
A sequence of explosions rocked the Ukrainian capital within the early hours of Monday, sending residents into bomb shelters, mentioned Ukraine’s air pressure. Air strikes additionally focused Kharkiv and different cities.
Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned emergency companies have been referred to as to the Holosiivskyi and Solomianskyi districts of Kyiv. One particular person was reportedly injured by falling particles in Shevchenkivskyi district.
Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s metropolis navy administration, mentioned greater than 10 cruise missiles, about 10 ballistic missiles and a drone fired on the Ukrainian capital and its suburbs have been destroyed by Ukraine’s air defences.
Ukrainian forces mentioned that general they destroyed 22 out of 35 missiles and 20 out of 23 assault drones over the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Poltava, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia areas.
Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv area, confirmed an early morning strike on the Industrialnyi district.
The barrage comes a day after Russia’s navy reported intercepting and destroying 158 Ukrainian drones focusing on a number of Russian areas in one of many largest Ukrainian assaults of the conflict that has raged for greater than two years.
