Ukraine shoots down 35 drones over Kyiv as Russia launches contemporary wave of strikes
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kraine air defences shot down 35 Iranian-made drones over Kyiv on Monday night time as Russia carried out large in a single day drone and missile strikes on the nation.
Three civilians had been killed because the Kremlin’s forces launched a wave of assaults on the capital and different cities.
Air raid alarms sounded for greater than three hours throughout the night time, with Ukrainian army bloggers saying they might have been triggered by a Russian warplane armed with Moscow’s Kinzhal hypersonic weapons taking off.
Reuters mentioned it was unable to independently confirm that assertion.
Drone wreckage struck a two-storey condo constructing in Kyiv’s western Svyatoshynskyi district, whereas different particles struck a automotive parked close by, setting it on fireplace, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned in a Telegram submit.
Russian shelling of 127 targets throughout northern, southern and jap elements of Ukraine killed three civilians, the Ukrainian Defence Ministry mentioned.
Attacks concerned tanks, drones, mortars, warplanes, a number of rocket launchers and surface-to-air missiles.
Long-range bombers additionally launched as much as eight cruise missiles at Ukraine’s southern Odesa area, authorities mentioned.
The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces mentioned Moscow had launched 16 missile strikes on cities and areas together with Kharkiv, Kherson, Nikolaev and Odessa. It additionally reported 52 situations of enemy shelling.
An condo constructing was broken by stays of a drone shot down throughout an in a single day strike in Kyiv
/ REUTERSA spokesperson mentioned: “Unfortunately, there are killed and wounded among civilians, damaged high-rise building, private residences and other civilian infrastructures.
“The probability of further Russian missile and air strikes across Ukraine remains high.”
At least 5 folks had been wounded in Kyiv amid harm to a gasoline depot, vehicles, buildings and infrastructure, town’s mayor mentioned.
Ukraine mentioned it had destroyed all 35 Iranian-made Shahed drones Russia had launched.
Speaking to the nation to mark the anniversary of the give up of Nazi Germany in 1945, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned the Kremlin was pursuing “enslavement and destruction”.
“We are returning to our state an honest history without ideological influences. It is on 8 May that most nations of the world remember the greatness of the victory over the Nazis,” he mentioned in a video posted on Telegram.
Mr Zelensky mentioned Europe couldn’t let Mr Putin safe victory and that it was once more time to defeat “evil” collectively “to ensure that no one ever enslaves other peoples or destroys other countries again”.
Separately, Moscow is getting ready for Tuesday’s Victory Day parade – crucial day within the calendar for Russia below Mr Putin.
But Russia has cancelled or curtailed a number of the big army parades that usually accompany Victory Day, partially as a result of safety considerations and partially as a result of Moscow has misplaced lots of army {hardware} throughout its winter offensive in Ukraine.