Global Courant 2023-05-29 08:14:05
The nighttime missile strike comes a day after Russia unleashed its largest-ever drone strike on the Ukrainian capital.
Several explosions rocked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in the 15th Russian airstrike on the city this month and the second consecutive night attack, according to officials.
“A missile was shot down near Kiev,” Mayor Vitali Klitschko told the Telegram messaging channel in the early hours of Monday. “Air defense works!”
He added that explosions were heard in several neighborhoods of the city, including Kiev’s historic Podil district, where falling debris damaged the roof of a house.
According to preliminary information from the city’s mayor and military administration, there were no casualties in the overnight attacks.
Monday’s attack, which appears to be a combination of missiles and drones, follows the largest drone barrage launched on Kiev the previous night, which killed one person and injured several others.
Officials said the city’s air defenses shot down 40 drones in and around the capital in the early hours of Sunday.
Most of the drones were Iranian-made Shahed munitions hanging around, the Kiev Independent news website reported.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the country’s air defense forces for protecting the country and asked parliament to impose sanctions on Iran for supplying weapons to Russia, including the Shahed drones.
Waves of Russian attacks on Ukraine now come several times a week.
The full extent of Monday’s attack is not immediately known.
The Reuters news agency reported several loud explosions as the city and the rest of Ukraine came under air raid alarm in the early hours of Monday.
With a long-promised Ukrainian counter-offensive looming to recapture territory held by Russia since it began its full-scale invasion 15 months ago, Moscow has intensified its attacks, targeting military infrastructure and supplies.
While Ukraine almost never publicly claims responsibility for attacks in Russia, a series of raids in the country have targeted military, energy and transport infrastructure, with Moscow blaming Kiev for the attacks.
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