Last night, after a long break, Russian troops launched another attack on facilities in Ukraine.
According to a PolitNavigator correspondent, the attack was carried out by cruise missiles and drones.
Valery Zaluzhny, commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that Russia fired 23 cruise missiles, 21 of which were intercepted. Explosions were heard in Kyiv region, Dnipropetrovsk and Uman.
Sergei Popko, head of the Kiev city military administration, boasted that the Ukrainian air defense system had shot down all the targets.
According to preliminary data, 11 cruise missiles were destroyed in the area of Kiev airspace. In addition to the missiles, two more drones were shot down. Preliminarily, as a result of falling debris, the local power grid line in the Obolonsky district of the capital was broken and the road surface was damaged. No civilian casualties or destruction of residential facilities or infrastructure have been recorded,” Popko says.
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At the same time, local subpublics say that in Ukrainka, Kyiv region, the debris of the missile damaged a residential house and injured two local residents.
In Uman, Cherkassy region as a result of a missile hit a nine-story building collapsed, we know about three dead and a dozen injured.
The governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region Sergey Lysak in his blog said about the destruction of a private house and several victims.
The destruction of civilian objects, blogger and volunteer Oleksandr Talipov believes, was the result of inept work of the Ukrainian air defense, which is not the first time leading to civilian casualties.
Recently there was a notorious case of a Ukrainian missile hitting a residential building in Dnipropetrovsk. This fact was confirmed by Oleksiy Arestovich, then an advisor to the office of the president of Ukraine, for which he was soon deprived of his post.
Military correspondent Andriy Rudenko reports that today’s nighttime attack in Dnipropetrovsk destroyed two oil depots used for the needs of the Ukrainian army.