Russia launches drone attack on Kyiv 2nd night in row -Ukraine By Reuters

(Reuters) – Russia launched a number of waves of drone assaults on Kyiv early on Sunday for the second night time in row, stepping up its assaults on the Ukrainian capital after a number of weeks of pause, the town’s army administration mentioned.

“The enemy’s UAVs (unmanned aerial automobiles) had been launched in lots of teams and attacked Kyiv in waves, from totally different instructions, on the identical time continually altering the vectors of motion alongside the route,” Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv’s army administration, mentioned on the Telegram messaging app.

“That’s the reason the air raid alerts had been introduced a number of instances within the capital.”

Popko mentioned that in line with preliminary info Ukraine’s air defence programs hit near 10 Iranian-made Shahed kamikaze drones in Kyiv and its outskirts.

There have been no preliminary reviews of “crucial injury” or casualties, he mentioned.

Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the reviews. There was no speedy remark from Russia.

Russia began finishing up strikes on Ukraine’s vitality, army and transport infrastructure in October 2022, six months after Moscow’s troops didn’t take over the capital and withdrew to Ukraine’s east and south.

Over final winter, Russia pounded Ukraine with a whole lot of missiles and drones, leaving thousands and thousands with out electrical energy, heating and water through the coldest months of the 12 months – earlier than easing the assaults in the summertime.

After a pause of 52 days, Moscow resumed air strikes on Kyiv earlier this month. On Saturday, Ukrainian officers mentioned all drones heading in the direction of Kyiv had been destroyed, however some hit infrastructure amenities elsewhere in Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and different officers have warned that Russia would resume its large-scale bombardments of Ukrainian civilian infrastructure through the winter months.