Ukraine accused Russia of being run by “barbarians” after Kyiv was focused by a second wave of air strikes in 24 hours.

More than 40 missiles and drones have been shot down over the capital early on Monday morning because the capital’s skies resembled “a Star Wars episode”.

Children have been seen operating for his or her lives to shelters as explosions lit up the sky within the assault – Russia’s fifteenth assault on town this month.

Yuri Ihnat, Ukraine’s air power spokesman, stated that Iskander ballistic missiles have been used within the assault and that it was attainable S-300 and S-400 rockets had additionally been fired.

Serhi Popko, the pinnacle of town’s army administration, stated 40 “aerial targets” have been shot down over Kyiv. There have been no stories of casualties, however falling drone particles broken buildings and sparked a rash of fires.

Russia was attempting to exhaust the nation’s air defences with the elevated assaults, Mr Popko stated.

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Vitali Klitschko, the Mayor of Kyiv, stated: “Another difficult night for the capital. But, thanks to the professionalism of our defenders, as a result of the air attack of the barbarians in Kyiv, there was no damage or destruction of infrastructural and other objects.”

The assault got here because the clear-up was nonetheless persevering with from an enormous assault on town on Sunday – the heaviest drone assault on the capital to this point.

It resulted in falling particles killing a 41-year-old man and injuring a number of others.

Explosions have been additionally reported within the jap metropolis of Lviv, the southern port of Odesa, together with the Vinnytsia and Khmelnytskyi areas.

In Khmelnytskyi, a strike on a army airfield broken 5 plane and the runway, regional authorities stated.

Oleksandr Scherba, the ambassador-at-large at Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated the previous couple of days had been very tough for Kyiv residents. He stated: “Almost every night, the skies look and sound like another Star Wars episode.

“But we don’t feel much of Russian rockets ­hitting their targets here within the city area.

“And this is all thanks to the decent countries... who gave us this air defence.”