The sirens sounded again in Kyiv – Attack by Russian drones

A day after Russia carried out one of its biggest airstrikes since it began the war in February, residents of Kiev were thrown from their beds at dawn as sirens blared across the city,

Shortly after 2 a.m. Kyiv city authorities called on residents to go to shelters through their Telegram messaging app channel.

Oleksiy Kuleba, governor of the Kyiv region, reported via Telegram that a “drone attack” was underway as air raid sirens sounded.

An eyewitness who was 20 kilometers south of Kiev told Reuters he heard explosions and the sound of anti-aircraft fire.

The Ukrainian armed forces announced that 16 Iranian-made Shahid drones had been launched and destroyed. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated that 7 of these aircraft targeted the city and that an administrative building was partially destroyed.

Kyiv claims Iran is supplying Moscow with drones for its airstrikes, but Tehran has said it had sent the last of its drones to Russia before the war began.

According to this morning’s report by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russia launched 85 missile strikes, 35 airstrikes and 63 strikes with multiple rocket launch systems in the last 24 hours.

According to the same source, Moscow forces shelled 20 settlements around the bombed city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, where some of the heaviest fighting is taking place, and more than 25 settlements in the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions.

Reuters was unable to immediately confirm reports from the battlefield.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that in most of the regions affected by yesterday’s mass air attack, there were power outages.

Areas where the holiday was “particularly difficult” included the capital Kyiv, Odessa and Kherson in the south and surrounding areas, as well as areas around Lviv, near the western border with Poland, Zelenskiy said.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on NATO member states to supply Ukraine with more weapons, according to an interview published today.

“I call on allies to do more. It is in our security interest to ensure that Ukraine prevails and (Russian President Vladimir) Putin does not win,” Stoltenberg told German news agency DPA.

Stoltenberg told DPA that military support for Ukraine is the shortest path to peace.

“We know that most wars end at the negotiating table – possibly this war too – but we know that what Ukraine can achieve in these negotiations is inextricably dependent on the military situation,” he said.

Britain announced today that it has given Ukraine more than 1,000 metal detectors and 100 bomb disposal kits and will help it clear minefields.

“Russia’s use of mines and its targeting of civilian infrastructure underlines the shocking brutality of Putin’s invasion,” British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said in a statement.

“The latest package of UK support will help Ukraine safely clear land and buildings as it reclaims its territory.”

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