Ukraine has turn into more and more adept at taking down waves of Russian cruise missiles and drones. (File)
Kyiv:
Russia has attacked Kyiv in an in a single day drone assault after a 12-day break, Ukrainian officers mentioned Sunday, with air defence forces destroying all targets.
“One other enemy air assault on Kyiv,” Sergiy Popko, head of the Kyiv metropolis navy administration, mentioned on social media.
He mentioned it was the primary drone assault on the Ukrainian capital in 12 days. “All enemy targets within the airspace round Kyiv had been detected and destroyed,” Popko mentioned.
In a separate assertion, Ukraine’s air power mentioned Sunday that it had shot down three cruise missiles and eight Iranian-made assault drones deployed by Moscow’s forces in a single day.
“Eight Shaheds had been launched from the southeast, and three Kalibr missiles had been launched from the Black Sea,” the air power mentioned.
It didn’t present any particulars on the Kyiv assaults.
A supply accustomed to the state of affairs advised AFP that no missile was shot down over Kyiv in a single day.
Ruslan Kravchenko, head of the Kyiv regional navy administration, mentioned that three homes had been broken by falling particles within the Kyiv area.
One man sustained a leg harm, Kravchenko added.
Ukraine has turn into more and more adept at taking down Russian cruise missiles and drones after interesting to Western allies for larger air defence capabilities.
Kyiv, which had been comparatively spared from assaults because the starting of the 12 months, confronted frequent nightly aerial raids in Could.
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