Russia launched 315 drones last night against Ukraine, including 250 Kamikaze -manned devices, and seven missiles, as the president has revealed, who has also said that the cities of kyiv and Odesa were among the main objectives of the bombing.
“Today’s has been one of the greatest attacks against kyiv, Odesa, and the Dnipró and Cherníguiv region also,” said Zelenski, who explained that drones and missiles – among which there were two North Korean ballistic missiles – caused damage to residential buildings and urban infrastructure.
The part of the Ukrainian Air Force – which identified direct impacts in 11 locations and falls of missile and drone fragments in 16 – shows that 213 of the Kamikaze Shahed drones launched by Russia were demolished and another 64 neutralized with electronic interference. The seven missiles were also intercepted.
According to the Ukrainian president, a maternity of Odessa was among the Russian objectives of the attack last night, which caused several dead (there are two confirmed by local authorities but the information of the local press say they can be more) and at least 13 injured.
Zelenski requested new sanctions against Moscow “to force Russia to La Paz.” “Russian attacks with missiles and with drones Shahed drown the,” said the Ukrainian president in his message, published on social networks.
However, beyond the words, Ukraine has also been very active in his response to the Russian invader, since Russian anti -aircraft defenses demolished 102 Ukrainian drones last night, four of them on the Republic of Tatarstán, a thousand kilometers from the Ukrainian border, the Russian Defense Ministry communicated on Tuesday.
“Between 21:50 on June 9 and 5:50 Moscow time on June 10, defensive alert aerial systems intercepted 102 Ukrainian drones,” said the military part. Most were destroyed on Briansk’s border regions (46) and Belgorod (20).
The Russian defenses intercepted nine flying over the Vorónezh region, four in Kaluga and another four in the Republic of Tatarstán, a thousand kilometers from the border with Ukraine. Three arrived in the Moscow region, two to the Leningrad region, two to Orlov, two others were killed in Kursk and one in Smolensk. They also reported that nine other drones were killed in the Ukrainian Peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014. According to Defense, 76 of the drones were demolished between 21:50 and 23:55.
The part of the ministry reports from the demolished Ukrainian drones, although not of those who achieved their objectives or hit Russian infrastructure.