Missiles and kamikaze drones: Ukraine and Russia report attacks and explosions

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Russia fired 17 missiles of different types and 31 so-called kamikaze drones of the Iranian type Shahed-136/131 at Ukraine, the air force reported in Kiev on Friday. 10 cruise missiles and 23 Shahed drones and 2 reconnaissance drones were shot down, it said. The attacks, which again hit the capital Kiev, lasted until five in the morning. There was an air raid alarm all over the country at night. There were also reports of attacks by Ukrainians in Russia.

There were effects in Ukraine in the Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions. In Dnipro, the military administration reported explosions. A clinic was hit. Authorities said there were 2 dead and 23 injured, including two children. Previously, there had been one death and fifteen injuries. “Russian terrorists reaffirm their status as fighters against all that is human and fair,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on his Telegram channel. Media spread images of a destroyed and burning building.

In addition, according to the authorities, two businesses, a gas station and a house were damaged. A gas station employee was injured. Russia had attacked massively with missiles and drones, it said.

The air defenses were also active again in Kiev due to rocket fire. The head of Kiev’s military administration, Serhiy Popko, said fragments from a launched missile had damaged the roof of a shopping and entertainment center. Elsewhere, a home was hit. Cars in a parking lot were also damaged. There are no injuries, Popko said.

New attacks from the neighboring country were reported on Russian territory near the border with Ukraine. Accordingly, there were explosions in the city of Krasnodar. Governor Venjamin Kondratiev spoke of two drone attacks. According to the authorities, an office building and a residential building were hit. In the Belgorod region, which was recently rocked by fighting, there were also reports of new shelling of the border town of Graivoron. Heavily armed fighters with military technology penetrated there from the Ukrainian side on Monday. More than 70 attackers were “destroyed,” the defense ministry in Moscow said.

(SDA)

Source: Blick