Air raid sirens wailed over 5 hours in Kyiv as Russian drones rained down on the capital.
Fallen particles from intercepted Russian drones resulted in injury throughout Kyiv after Moscow focused the Ukrainian capital in an hours-long drone assault. The particles induced destruction in six metropolis districts, based on Kyiv’s Metropolis Navy Administration.
Ukraine’s air power mentioned that Moscow launched a complete of 71 Iranian-made Shahed drones in direction of the capital in a single day on Saturday, most of which had been intercepted or despatched off-course utilizing GPS jamming.
Ukrainian forces shot down 39 out of the 71 drones, and ‘misplaced’ one other 21. In keeping with native media, 5 drones flew again in direction of Russia.
The wreckage of the fallen drones struck a 16-storey condo and workplace block, leading to injury on the highest two flooring and sparking a fireplace.
The particles additionally broken a high-voltage line powering the capital, based on Ukrainian vitality supplier DTEK. They’ve since confirmed that energy has been largely restored, and that they’re engaged on the repairs.
On social media platform X, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned that this 12 months, his nation “confronted the specter of ‘Shahed’ drones nearly each evening—generally within the morning, and even throughout the day,” he added that the Iranian-backed UAVs “have turn into one of many major devices of Russian terror in opposition to Ukraine.”
Zelenskyy additionally reported drone strikes within the Poltava, Sumy and Kharkiv areas.
Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi mentioned Ukraine requires a relentless provide of sources because the protection forces “are holding again one of the highly effective Russian offensives because the starting of the full-scale invasion.”
