Russia launched its sixth airstrike on Kiev this month early Tuesday, the Ukrainian capital’s military administration said, with airstrike alerts sounding for more than three hours over the city and the eastern half of the country.
Russia attacked Kiev with Iranian-made Shahed drones, and according to preliminary information, all the drones were shot down by Ukraine’s air defense systems, Serhiy Popko, head of Kiev’s military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app.
There were no casualties or serious damage, although information was still being collected, it added.
Reuters could not independently verify the information about the attacks.
Raid-raid sirens sounded for more than three hours in most of eastern Ukraine from about 1:40 a.m. (2240 ​​GMT), the country’s Air Force said.
At 5.30 am the Air Force said on its Telegram channel that there was a new threat of attacks against the eastern and southeastern regions of Ukraine using ballistic weapons and issued air strike alerts for those areas.
Ukrainian forces disrupted a Russian drone attack on kyiv, Ukrainian military officials said on Tuesday, reporting no casualties or damage.
“Tonight the enemy has attacked kyiv” by means of drones, Sergiy Popko, the head of the capital’s military administration, declared on Telegram.
“All air targets were detected and destroyed” on their approach to kyiv, he said. “According to current information, there are neither casualties nor destruction in the capital,” she added.
During the night, the authorities activated the anti-aircraft alert in the kyiv region and invited the inhabitants to stay under cover.
According to Popko, it is “already the sixth drone attack in the capital this month.”
The air forces also raised the alarm for air strikes in the southern regions of Odessa and Mykolaiv, on the Black Sea coast.
These regions have important port infrastructure that Moscow has attacked repeatedly since the end of the agreement last week that facilitated the export of Ukrainian grain by this sea.
With information from Reuters and AFP.
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