Ukraine war: Russia launches massive overnight drone attack
RUSSIA carried out one of the heaviest drone attacks in recent months against Ukraine during the night, the Ukrainian air force said on Sunday.
“In total, the launch of a record number of kamikaze drones was registered: 54!” the air force wrote on Telegram early Sunday.
Military officials said that 52 of the aerial drones were shot down and that the attack was mainly aimed at the capital Kiev.
Kiev’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said a 35-year-old woman was injured by debris from a falling drone and a 41-year-old man was killed.
Forty drones were shot down over kiev in the nighttime assault. It was the 14th such attack since the beginning of May, military governor Serhiy Popko wrote on Telegram.
Several buildings were damaged and fires broke out. Damage was also reported in the regional capital of Zhytomyr, some 120 kilometres west of Kiev. There were no fatalities, according to the mayor of Zhytomyr, Serhiy Sukhomlyn.
In addition to the drone attacks, Ukrainian authorities reported artillery fire on the Sumy region on the border with Russia and the town of Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Nikopol is on the north bank of the Dnipro River opposite Enerhodar, where the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is located.
The plant has been occupied by Russians since the beginning of the war. Nikopol has been under fire on and off for months.
On Sunday, a British intelligence update shared on Twitter said that Russian citizens are increasingly called upon to make sacrifices for the war in Ukraine.
It reported: “Russian state-backed media and business groups have petitioned the Economic Ministry to authorize a six-day week for workers in the face of the economic demands of the war, apparently without additional pay.”
The British Ministry of Defence has been publishing daily updates on the course of the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine since the outset, based on intelligence. Moscow accuses London of a disinformation campaign.