Ukraine said on Friday it had intercepted “all” Russian missiles and drones that targeted Kiev overnight, injuring at least two, the sixth attack in as many days on the capital. “All 15 (Russian) cruise missiles and 21 attack drones were destroyed by air defense,” the Ukrainian Air Force said on social media Telegram.
According to the head of the local military administration, Serguïi Popko, Russia used X-101/555 type missiles and Shahed explosive drones. “Terror on kyiv with air attacks continues,” he lamented on Telegram. “In the past six days, the (Russians) have already carried out their sixth airstrike on the city,” he blasted as the Ukrainian capital is once again targeted by the Russian military after a lull in recent months .
The main information:
- A new Russian night attack targeted the Ukrainian capital overnight from Thursday to Friday.
- 15 cruise missiles and 21 attack drones were reportedly destroyed by Ukrainian air defense.
- Two civilians were killed and two others injured in the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine.
According to the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s Office, which opened an investigation, “an 11-year-old child was injured (and) a 68-year-old man hospitalized” following this “massive attack”. Houses and cars were also “damaged”, according to this source. The chief of the police of the kyiv region, Andriï Nebytov, for his part indicated that “five apartment buildings were damaged” following this new Russian attack. “The air alert lasted more than two hours” in the night, he detailed.
Russia has been stepping up drone and missile attacks on Kiev since the beginning of May, often at night, a tactic denounced by Ukraine as aimed at terrorizing the civilian population at a time when the Ukrainian army says it is completing its preparations for a counter-offensive aimed at reconquering the territories occupied by Moscow. Russia, as usual, claims that its salvoes are still “successfully” targeting military targets.
In Russia, two civilians killed in a bombardment on a border region of Ukraine
Two civilians were killed and two wounded in a Ukrainian bombardment on the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, said Friday the governor of this territory subjected to repeated strikes in recent days.
“Shards of shrapnel hit passing cars. In one of them, two women (…) died on the spot of their wounds”, declared on Telegram Vyacheslav Gladkov, specifying that these shots had hit a road in a village near the town of Chebekino, bordering Ukraine.