Overnight drone attack on Ukraine, including on the capital Kyiv, came a day after Russia carried out one of the biggest aerial assaults since it started the war in February.
„:“Ukraine said on Friday that it repelled an overnight drone attack on the country, including on the capital Kyiv, a day after Russia carried out one of the biggest aerial assaults since it started the war in February. “On the night of December 29-30, the enemy attacked Ukraine with Iranian-made kamikaze drones,” Ukraine’s air force said in a statement on social media. It added that a total of 16 Iranian-made Shahed drones were launched from the southeastern and northern directions and they were “all” destroyed by Ukraine’s air defence. In Kyiv, the city authorities announced an air alert at 2.12am local time, which lasted for just over two hours, and called on residents to proceed to shelters. Mayor Vitali Klitschko later said the capital was attacked with seven drones: two were shot down “on approach” and five over the city. There were no casualties, but falling debris damaged windows in two buildings in a southwestern neighbourhood, he added. Belarus protests to Ukraine after downing stray air defence missile The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces Friday morning report said Russia had launched 85 missile strikes, 35 air strikes, and 63 strikes from multiple rocket launch systems in 24 hours. It said Moscow’s forces also shelled 20 settlements around the bombed out town of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, where some of the fiercest fighting is being waged, and more than 25 settlements in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said most regions hit in Thursday’s massive air attack suffered power outages.
