At least five dead, including a child, after overnight shelling across Ukraine

A woman and a three-year-old boy died early Friday in the Dnieper region after bombing which happened all night Ukraine. As Mayor Boris Filatov confirmed, these two people died after Russian “precision attack fighters”.

In addition, a spokesman for the State Police in the Cherkasy region, in the center of the country, reported that a missile hit a residential building in the city of Uman, leaving at least three dead and eight injured, who are being treated in area hospitals.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, confirmed that since 4:00 a.m. local time, various air warnings were activated throughout the country when an attack by strategic Tu-35 aircraft was received. The anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in cooperation with the air defense systems of other components of the Armed Forces, destroyed 21 out of 23 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles, as well as two unmanned aerial vehicles of the operational-tactical level,” he specified in the statement. .

Namely, the missiles were destroyed in the areas of responsibility of the Air Command CenterAir Command This one and Air Command South.

In the capital, authorities reported that air defenses swung into action and shot down 11 missiles as well as two unmanned aerial vehicles, the first attack in the capital in 52 days. The authorities reported a power outage in one district and surface damage on the highway as the only damage in the capital.

Ukraine activated an air alert throughout its territory during the early hours of Friday, from around 02:00 to approximately 06:00 local time.