Ukraine repelled a major Russian attack as an onslaught of cruise, ballistic missiles and drones targeted Kyiv and five other regions overnight.
Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv city military administration, said Ukraine’s air defence systems destroyed all weapons on their approach to the capital.
The debris caused a fire at an industrial facility in the region, the governor said. One resident was injured after a private residence, a garage, a gas station and a storage unit were damaged, he added.
The attack came after several weeks of quiet nights in. It also targeted parts of western Ukraine that border Nato-member Poland, and triggered air raid alerts across the whole of the war-torn country, including the Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Kharkiv, and Vinnytsia regions.
The Ukrainian military said it shot down five out of six missiles and all 24 drones launched during Russia‘s overnight attack.
Dnipropetrovsk governor said the attack injured three people and damaged nine private residences, reporting that 11 drones were shot down over his region.
It comes as the US dropped a critical ban on arming a controversial Ukrainian fighting unit, allowing the Azov Brigade access to some of its lethal munitions.
