At least nine people were killed and more than 80 others were injured in the Russian attacks on Ukraine on Tuesday night, the local authorities announced. This happened after Moscow had been warning for several days about a large-scale attack, TASR reports, according to a Reuters report.
- Overnight Russian attacks on Ukraine have killed at least nine people in total.
- In the Dnepropetrovsk region, five people died and twenty-five were injured.
- In Kyiv, four people were killed, fifty-one were injured after the blows.
- Ten people were injured in the Kharkiv region after drone and rocket attacks.
- Russia deployed 656 drones and 73 missiles in the massive attack.
Five people were killed and 25 were injured in the Dnepropetrovsk region as well, the local governor Olexandr Hanža announced on the Telegram platform. The injured were hospitalized, the governor stated, and at the same time published photos of damaged residential buildings, burned vehicles and a destroyed playground.
In Kyiv, at least four people were killed and another 51 were injured, said the head of the military administration there, Tymur Tkachenko. The mayor of the Ukrainian metropolis, Vitaly Klitschko, informed that that a 24-story residential building had collapsed, possibly after being hit by a missile, and that people were apparently trapped under its debris. He also clarified that several buildings were engulfed in flames.
“Cars are on fire in the Oboloň neighborhood after being hit by falling rocket fragments. Fires also broke out in two open spaces, while there is also a fire near a kindergarten,” clarified Klitschko. Ten injured, including one child, were reported in the Kharkiv region after drone and rocket attacks, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terechov said on Telegram.
Russia’s Ilysky oil refinery in the Krasnodar region was engulfed in fire after a drone attack, local authorities said on Telegram on Tuesday. Air defense systems also reflected drone attacks over a naval base in Russian-occupied Crimea. Reuters points out that these reports could not be immediately independently verified.
Russia warned last week that it planned to launch “systematic attacks” on targets in Kiev linked to the Ukrainian military. Moscow claimed it was in retaliation for the May attack on a dormitory in Ukraine’s Luhansk region, which it currently controls. Ukraine denies responsibility for the strike.
Russia’s armed forces said on Tuesday they had launched a large-scale strike targeting a network of facilities in the Ukrainian military-industrial complex, using hypersonic missiles. The Ukrainian Air Force reported attacks by more than 650 drones and 70 missiles. TASR informs about it according to the report of the AFP agency.
The Ministry of Defense in Moscow said in a statement that a “massive strike” using “high-precision weapons” was aimed at targets in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and in the Zaporozhye, Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk regions, as well as energy and transport infrastructure used by the Ukrainian army in other areas of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Tuesday morning that Russia deployed 656 drones and 73 missiles during night attacks against the country, including hard-to-shoot ballistic missiles. The air defense there managed to shoot down 602 drones and 40 missiles, AFP quotes. The massive Russian strike on targets in Ukraine on Tuesday night came after Moscow has been warning of a large-scale attack for several days.
