Global Courant
Kiev skyline at night.
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Russia launched a nighttime drone strike on Kyiv and the surrounding region after a 12-day pause, with air defense systems destroying all weapons on their approach, Ukrainian military officials said on Sunday.
The country’s air force said the strike included eight Iranian Shahed drones and three cruise missiles shot down.
“Another enemy attack on Kiev,” Serhiy Popko, a colonel general who heads Kiev’s military administration, said in a message on the Telegram channel.
Three private houses were damaged due to falling drone debris in the Kiev region, with one person injured, the region’s military chief Ruslan Kravchenko said on his Facebook page.
Reuters witnesses heard explosions resembling the sound of air defense systems hitting targets. There was no direct information about the size of the attack.
Kiev, the surrounding region and a number of regions in central and eastern Ukraine were under air-raid alert about an hour after 02:00 local time (23:00 GMT).
