All of the Iranian-made Shahed explosive drones were detected and shot down, according to Serhii Popko, head of the kyiv city administration. In addition, the surrounding region came under attack. kyiv regional governor Ruslan Kravchenko reported that one person was injured by falling debris from a destroyed drone.
The authorities in the Ukrainian capital did not provide the exact number of drones that attacked the city. But Ukraine’s air force said that across the country, the Russians launched eight Shahed and three Kalibr cruise missiles.
Further south, a 13-year-old boy was wounded in a nighttime shelling of Kherson province, said Oleksandr Tolokonnikov, a spokesman for the province’s Ukrainian administration.
The boy was injured when the Russian army shelled the village of Mylove on the banks of the Dnieper river in the Beryslav district. “The boy was hospitalized, there is no threat to his life,” Tolokonnikov added.
The shelling of Kherson province continued on Sunday morning, injuring four people in the regional capital, also called Kherson.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s military reported that the heaviest fighting continued in the industrial east, with attacks focused on Bakhmut, Marinka and Lyman in the Donetsk province, where 46 clashes broke out.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the Black Sea port city of Odessa on Sunday, the day the country honors its navy.
In Russia, local officials reported that air defense systems shot down a drone over the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine.
Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said on Sunday that Poland would send 500 police officers to support 5,000 border guards and 2,000 soldiers already on the country’s border with Belarus as fighters from the Russian Wagner paramilitary group arrived in Belarus.
FUENTE: Associated Press
