Moscow/Kiev (dpa -Afx) – After a severe Russian air raid on the Ukrainian capital Kiev, Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj calls for more pressure on Moscow. “Today was one of the biggest attacks on Kiev,” he wrote on the X platform. Such air strikes destroyed all the efforts of the United States and other countries.
Selenskyj asked the world and especially the USA and Europe to act. The answer to such Russian attacks should not be silent. There were fires in the capital, several buildings were destroyed. There were injuries. The port city of Odessa was also hit hard.
More than 300 drones, rockets and cruise missiles
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia attacked its neighboring country with 315 drones and drone dummies, two North Korean ballistic rockets and five marching air bodies. 284 attack objects were made harmless, including all rockets and marching missiles.
The nightly attack was massive, but Moscow used fewer drones and rockets than in the past few days. The largest attack so far was 479 drones on Monday night on Monday.
Also Ukrainian drones over Russian areas
According to the governor Wjatscheslaw Gladkow, a woman was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack in the Russian border area Belgorod. There were also injuries.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the shooting of enemy drones. According to this, 102 Ukrainian drones were shot down over many Russian areas and the Black Sea Peninsula Crimea in 2014. The information from the warring parties cannot be checked independently, but they allow conclusions to be drawn about the intensity of the attacks. According to Russian media reports, a drone factory was a drone factory at the city of Jelabuga in the partial republic of Tatarstan.
According to the aviation authority, air traffic in Russia was once again restricted for security reasons. No starts and landings were admitted to 13 airports in the night and in the morning. This included the Moscow Airports as well as the airport of the second largest Russian city of St. Petersburg./ksr/dp/men