Ukraine Claims Overnight Drone Strikes By Russia, Destroyed All Of Them

Ukraine battle: An air alert lasted for over two hours in Kyiv.

Kyiv:

Ukraine’s military mentioned Friday that it repelled an in a single day drone assault on the nation, together with on the capital Kyiv, a day after Russia launched a barrage of missiles on the war-battered nation.

“On the evening of December 29-30, the enemy attacked Ukraine with Iranian-made kamikaze drones,” Ukraine’s air drive mentioned in a press release on social media.

It added {that a} whole of 16 drones have been launched from the southeastern and northern instructions and so they have been “all” destroyed by Ukraine’s air defence.

Within the capital Kyiv, the town authorities introduced an air alert at 2:12 am native time (2412 GMT), which lasted for simply over two hours.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko later mentioned the capital was attacked with seven drones: two have been shot down “on strategy” and 5 over the town.

There have been no casualties, however falling particles broken home windows in two buildings in a southwestern neighbourhood, he added.

On Thursday morning, blasts have been reported throughout Ukraine — together with in Kyiv, the second metropolis Kharkiv within the east and the western metropolis of Lviv close to the border with Poland.

Ukraine’s military mentioned Russia had launched 69 cruise missiles, 54 of which had been shot down.

The assaults got here 10 months into Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. In current months Russian strikes have focused the vitality grid, leaving thousands and thousands within the chilly in the course of winter.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned most areas have been left with out energy following Thursday’s assault.

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