According to Ukrainian sources, Russia carried out large-scale airstrikes across Ukraine early on Monday. Air alert sounded for hours in about two-thirds of the country.
According to the Ukrainian military, the intensified Russian attacks have again caused casualties among the population. “Unfortunately, there are dead and wounded civilians,” explains the General Staff in its daily situation report.
In the night alone there were 16 rocket attacks, mainly on the cities of Kharkiv, Cherson, Mykolaiv and the Odessa region. All drone attacks were repelled, the military said. In total, Russia attacked various parts of Ukraine with 35 Iranian-made drones.
Apparently five injured in Kyiv
At least five people were injured in the Russian airstrikes on Kiev, according to the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko. Three people were wounded in explosions in the Solomjanskyi district, two others from drone wreckage falling on a two-storey building in the Svyatoshyn district.
Reuters eyewitnesses reported numerous explosions in the city. Local authorities say the air defense systems repelled the attacks.
It was not immediately clear how many drones were shot down on Kiev. The Kiev military administration announced that wreckage of a drone had fallen on a runway at Zhulyany Airport, one of the two passenger airports in the Ukrainian capital, and that rescue workers were on site.
Explosions were also heard in the Kherson region and in the Zaporizhia region, according to media reports. In the port city of Odessa, the district military administration reported an airstrike in which a food warehouse was hit by an X-22 missile. This caused a fire. There is “no information about victims” on site. (Tsp with AFP/Reuters)
