kraine air defences shot down 35 Iranian-made drones over Kyiv on Monday night time as Russia performed huge in a single day drone and missile strikes on the nation.
Three civilians have 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 may 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 house constructing in Kyiv’s western Svyatoshynskyi district, whereas different particles struck a automobile parked close by, setting it on fireplace, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned in a Telegram publish.
Russian shelling of 127 targets throughout northern, southern and jap elements of Ukraine killed three civilians, the Ukrainian Defence Ministry mentioned.
Assaults concerned tanks, drones, mortars, warplanes, a number of rocket launchers and surface-to-air missiles.
Lengthy-range bombers additionally launched as much as eight cruise missiles at Ukraine’s southern Odesa area, authorities mentioned.
The Normal Workers 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 house constructing was broken by stays of a drone shot down throughout an in a single day strike in Kyiv
/ REUTERSA spokesperson mentioned: “Sadly, there are killed and wounded amongst civilians, broken high-rise constructing, personal residences and different civilian infrastructures.
“The chance of additional Russian missile and air strikes throughout Ukraine stays excessive.”
At the least 5 individuals have 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.
Chatting with 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’re returning to our state an trustworthy historical past with out ideological influences. It’s on 8 Could that almost all nations of the world bear in mind 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 make sure that nobody ever enslaves different peoples or destroys different international locations once more”.
Individually, Moscow is getting ready for Tuesday’s Victory Day parade – crucial day within the calendar for Russia below Mr Putin.
However Russia has cancelled or curtailed a number of the big army parades that usually accompany Victory Day, partly because of safety issues and partly as a result of Moscow has misplaced a number of army {hardware} throughout its winter offensive in Ukraine.
