Russia launched a major missile and drone barrage on Kyiv yesterday, reportedly killing six people as of press time last night, starting fires and scattering debris across the city, Ukrainian authorities said.
Emergency crews responded to multiple strikes during the night, Kyiv military administration head Tymur Tkachenko said.
Russia used at least 430 drones and 18 missiles in the attack that left gaping holes in some city buildings, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
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Friday’s assault, which also targeted Odesa in the south and Kharkiv in the northeast, was mostly aimed at Kyiv, where drones and missiles smashed into high-rise apartment blocks, Zelenskiy said.
It was “a specially calculated attack to cause as much harm as possible to people and civilians,” he wrote on Telegram.
Moscow denies targeting civilian areas, with the Russian Ministry of Defense saying it carried out an overnight strike on Ukraine’s “military-industrial and energy facilities.”
Ukrainian officials scoffed at those claims, showing repeated damage to homes and public buildings.
The attack was the biggest on Kyiv in almost three weeks. Most recent Russian aerial attacks have aimed at electricity infrastructure around the country ahead of the bitter winter months.
Ukraine used its US-made Patriot air defense systems to repel the attack and shot down 14 missiles, Zelenskiy said.
In the Odesa region, Russian drones struck a busy street in Chornomorsk, killing two people and injuring seven others, regional military administration chief Oleh Kiper said.
City authorities warned that power and water outages are possible.
Eight of the capital’s 10 districts reported damage. Emergency crews fought fires in apartment blocks, debris from explosions was strewn across yards and cars parked in the streets were set ablaze.
In the wider Kyiv region, Russian strikes damaged critical infrastructure and private homes, injuring at least one civilian, regional military administration head Mykola Kalashnyk said.
The Russian Ministry of Defense yesterday said its air defense forces shot down 216 Ukrainian drones overnight over a number of Russian regions, including the annexed Crimea.
It did not mention missiles.
The Russian defense ministry accused Ukraine of hitting civilian facilities and claimed the overnight strike on Kyiv came in response to that.
More than 60 Ukrainian drones were intercepted over the southern Krasnodar region, 45 drones were destroyed over the Saratov region while another 19 were shot down over Crimea, it said.
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