KYIV (Reuters) -Russia launched its fifth air assault this month concentrating on Kyiv and air defence techniques destroyed all drones on method to the capital, Ukrainian navy officers mentioned early on Wednesday.
Ukraine’s Air Drive mentioned air defence techniques destroyed 18 out of 19 assault drones launched at Kyiv, Odesa, Kherson and different areas of Ukraine. It was not instantly clear what number of have been destroyed over Kyiv.
“According to preliminary information, there were no casualties or destruction in the capital,” Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s navy administration, mentioned on the Telegram messaging app.
The Ukrainian air drive additionally mentioned that Russia attacked the Kharkiv area within the east with two surface-to-air guided missiles. There have been no casualites because of the assault, it added.
Ukraine’s prosecutor’s workplace mentioned on Wednesday morning that 9 folks, together with 4 kids, have been injured in an in a single day Russian drone assault on the Ukrainian southern metropolis of Kherson.
“So far, nine residents have been reported injured, including four young children. Civilian objects and residential buildings were damaged,” the prosecutors mentioned in a press release.
There was no instant remark from Russia.
Russia began finishing up strikes on Ukraine’s vitality, navy and transport infrastructure in areas removed from the entrance line in October 2022, six months after Moscow troops didn’t take over Kyiv and withdrew to Ukraine’s east and south.
Most of southeastern Ukraine remained underneath air raid alerts at 2300 GMT, with Ukraine’s air drive saying that the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kirovohrad areas have been underneath menace of Russian ballistic missile assaults.