Russian giant attacks – several killed in Kyiv

During the night, Russia fired 407 attack drones, 38 cruise robots and six ballistic robots against Ukraine, the country’s air force announces.

« Another massive attack on cities and everyday life, » writes President Volodymyr Zelenskyj at X, states that a total of about 50 people were injured the country over.

The flight attack is said to be the second largest during the war, since Russia last weekend fired a total of 472 drones and robots at one and the same time.

Explosions have been roaring in Kiev several rounds during the night, according to the Ukrainian public service company Suspilne. For hours, bangs and the sound of machine guns were heard when the capital’s air defense tried to push down incoming projectiles.

In Kyiv, four people have been killed And rescue personnel are still working in several places in the city, says Mayor Vitalij Klyko. Three of the killed were rescue workers, according to the country’s state rescue service. A number of buildings have suffered damage, as are several railway tracks.

The robot alarm also thundered in several other Ukrainian regions during the night.

In Lutsk in northwestern Ukraine, several people have been injured, governor IHor Policejuk. Russia attacked the city with 15 drones and six robots, he adds. Among other things, a multi -family house was attacked.

Explosions have also been reported from, among others, Chernihiv in the northeast and Ternopil and Lviv in western Ukraine, according to Suspilne.

The night’s extensive Russian attack comes since Russian President Vladimir Putin promised revenge for Sunday’s Ukrainian attack on Russian military air bases. On Friday morning, the Ministry of Defense in Moscow claims that they have attacked Ukrainian « military facilities » in response to Kiev’s attacks, AFP writes.

In Sunday’s Ukrainian drone attack, a number of Russia’s strategic bombers, which are used to shoot cruise robots at Ukrainian cities, are stated to have been destroyed.

And the Ukrainian attacks seems to continue. According to Russian media, an oil refinery is in Engels in southwestern Russia on Friday morning on fire after a Ukrainian drone attack. The refinery provides a military air base with fuel, writes The Kyiv Independent. The base Djagilevo in Rjazan must also have been attacked.

A little further west in Russia, in the Tambov region, Ukrainian drones are said to have attacked a weapons factory. Attacks are also reported from the Oblasten Moscow, Tula, Belgorod and Kaluga.

Russia confirms that Ukraine launched attacks against several parts of Russia and Russian -checked Crimea, but mentions no injuries.