Russia targets Kyiv, Odesa in latest drone attack keeping most of Ukraine under air-raid alert
Russia has unleashed an overnight drone attack across Ukraine targeting the capital Kyiv and hitting infrastructure in the Black Sea port of Odesa.
The State Emergency Service on Sunday said one person was wounded and warehouses and cargo trucks were damaged in Odesa during the multi-wave attack, which kept much of the country under air-raid alert for several hours.
The Ukrainian military shot down 56 out of at least 87 drones launched by Russia over various regions of the country, the air force said. It said another 25 were “lost” due to electronic jamming but did not elaborate.
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Air raid alerts for Kyiv and the surrounding region were announced three times throughout the night, totalling more than five hours, Popko added.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports.
Russia has denied targeting civilians in its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which begun in February 2022, but regularly launches missiles, drones and bombs at population centres far behind the front line.
