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Kiev was attacked by more than a dozen Russian drones at dawn, the Ukrainian capital’s military administration said, warning of a missile threat, while AFP journalists heard explosions.
This is the second night of great attacks Against Kiev, after about 250 ‘drones’ (unmanned aircraft) and 14 ballistic missiles were detected on Friday night to Saturday by the Ukrainian Air Force, most of whom aimed at the capital.
“More than a dozen enemies ‘drones’ are already in airspace around the capital. News are also approaching,” he said Timur Tkienkohead of the Military Administration of Kiev, at dawn on Sunday (two more hours in Lisbon).
“The enemy will probably Use a large number of ‘drones’ and missiles from strategic aircraft, ”he added on the social network Telegram. Destroads fell into a residential building Five -story in the Golosivsky district, Tkachenko said.
The Mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschkoreported Explosions in the city. “Air defense forces are in prevention. The capital is Sob attack by ‘drones’ Enemies, ”he warned of the messaging service, asking residents to take place.
Last night, Russia launched dozens of ballistic drones and missiles Against Kiev, at night, in one of the largest air strikes combined against the Ukrainian capital during the three years of war, damaging several apartment buildings and hurting 15 people.
The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskiysaid in a publication on social networks that it had been A “difficult night” for Ukraine and appealed to new international sanctions to press Moscow to accept a ceasefire.
In the early hours of the morning, witnesses heard by the turn and heard successive vacancies of drones to fly over Kiev, and a series of explosions shook the city. The capital also Echoed with the sound of anti -aircraft batteries who tried to overthrow the drones.
These attacks occur in the middle of a prisoners exchangebeing the final stage scheduled for today, the only tangible result of the first direct negotiations between Russians and Ukrainians in Istanbul in mid -May.
Not Saturday, 307 Russian war prisoners were exchanged By the same number of Ukrainian military, they announced Kiev and Moscow. The first part of this great exchange, NO Format of 1,000 per 1,000involved 270 soldiers and 120 civilians from each field on Friday.
Russian attacks also occur at a time when the US President, Donald Trumpis encouraging the two countries to sit for conversations of ceasefire to end the waralthough resisting a European plan to impose new sanctions on Russia.