No less than eight individuals have been killed and greater than 30 injured throughout Ukraine in in a single day Russian drone and missile assaults, regional officers have mentioned.
4 deaths have been reported in Ukraine’s western Khmelnytskyi area. Three extra deaths have been reported within the Kyiv area, and one within the southern metropolis of Mykolaiv.
It comes a day after Kyiv suffered one of many heaviest assaults because the begin of the Russian invasion.
Russia’s defence ministry mentioned its air defence items shot down or intercepted 95 Ukrainian drones over a lot of Russian areas, together with Moscow, throughout a four-hour interval on Saturday evening. No casualties have been reported.
The drone assault pressured a short suspension of all flights at Moscow’s airports.
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and Moscow presently controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory.
This contains Crimea – Ukraine’s southern peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.
Kyiv regional head Mykola Kalashnyk mentioned three individuals have been killed and 10 others have been injured.
He posted on social media pictures of a number of homes set ablaze after the Russian strikes.
Within the capital Kyiv, native officers reported 11 accidents, a number of fires and harm to residential buildings, together with a dormitory.
Lots of of individuals have been seen sheltering in underground stations of the town’s metro. It comes because the capital marks its annual Kyiv Day vacation on Sunday.
In Mykolaiv, Ukraine’s state emergencies service DSNS mentioned the physique of an aged man was pulled out from a five-storey residential constructing hit by a drone. One other 5 individuals have been injured.
In Kharkiv, regional authorities reported three accidents.
In Russia, the defence ministry mentioned that Ukrainian drones focused eight Russian areas.
“From 20:00 Moscow time (17:00 GMT) on 24 Could to 00:00 on 25 Could, air defence items on obligation destroyed and intercepted 95 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial automobiles,” the ministry mentioned in an announcement.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported that 12 drones heading in direction of the capital have been shot down.
He added that emergency providers crews have been deployed to evaluate harm brought on by falling drone particles.
