Ukrainian air defenses shot down 35 Iranian-made drones over kyiv in Russia’s latest nighttime assault, as all-Ukrainian attacks by Kremlin forces killed four civiliansaccording to official sources reported on Monday.
Five people were injured in the capital due to falling drone debris, according to Serhii Popko, head of the Military Administration of the city of kyiv. The anti-aircraft alarms sounded for more than three hours throughout the night.
The wreckage of the drone reached a two story apartment building in the district of Svyatoshynskyiin western Kiev, while other debris struck a car parked nearby, setting it on fire, kyiv’s mayor said, Vitali Klitschkoin a Telegram message.
Faced with economic sanctions and limitations on their supply chains due to their invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has routinely turned to Shahed drones Iranians to bolster their firepower.
The Russian bombardments against 127 targets in the north, south and east of Ukraine three civilians were killedaccording to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
The Kremlin forces used tanks, Drones, mortars, war planes, rocket launcher multiple and surface-to-air missiles to bomb Ukraine, according to the report.
Russian long-range bombers launched up to eight cruise missiles against the Ukrainian region of Odessain the south of the country, according to the authorities. one person died and three were injured.
Some of the Soviet-era cruise missiles launched at the Odessa region self-destructed or fell into the sea before reaching their targets, according to the Ukrainian air force spokesman, Yuri Ihnat.
Besides, six russian rockets They also reached the city of Kramatorskin eastern Ukraine, overnight, a regional official said Monday.
The missiles targeted the industrial zone of the city and caused no casualties, said the Donetsk regional governor, Petro Kyrylenkoin a Telegram message.
The bombing occurred as Moscow tightened security on the eve of the traditional commemorations on Red Square for the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
The Russian media reported at least 21 Russian cities that canceled the parades military – the basic element of the celebrations of the victory day throughout Russia – on May 9 for the first time in years. Regional officials cited “security issues” or they vaguely referred to “the current situation”.
Parades will go ahead in Russia’s largest cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg. But both cities have banned the use of drones before Victory Day. In Saint Petersburg, known as the “Venice of the North” for its network of rivers and canals, the use of jet skis has also been banned in certain areas of the city until May 10. In the Russian capital, car sharing services have been temporarily banned in the city center.
May 9 is normally a public holiday in Ukraine too, but not this year, due to the war.
Ukrainian President, Volodimir Zelenskydeclared on Monday that he had sent a bill to Parliament proposing a Remembrance and Victory Day about Nazism in Second World War on May 8 and a Europe Day on May 9further distancing kyiv from Moscow.
Zelensky matched the goals of Russia in Ukraine to those of nazis. “Unfortunately, evil has returnedZelensky said on Telegram. “Although he is now another aggressor, the goal is the same: enslave or destroy.”
Meanwhile, the authorities installed by Russia have begun to evacuate Tokmak residentsa city in the region of Zaporizhzhyain the south of the front line, towards the Black Sea coast, the General Staff of Ukraine said.
People working for Kremlin-appointed local authorities, as well as children and education workers, are being transferred to Berdyanska Russian-occupied coastal city about 100 kilometers to the southeast, he said.
The report comes just days after Yevhen Balitskythe Russian-appointed governor of the partially occupied Zaporizhzhia region, on Friday ordered the evacuation of civilians from 18 settlements in the area, including enerhodarneighbor of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
For months there has been speculation about the timing and purpose of the expected spring offensive Ukraine, and some analysts say that kyiv could try to attack the south of Zaporizhzhya to divide the Russian forces and cut Moscow’s land link with the occupied Crimea.
On another front, the Russian military command has promised the wagner groupa private military company, ammunition and additional equipment for their offensive in the eastern city of Bakhmutaccording to the founder of Wagner, Yevgeniy Prigozhinin an audio statement published by its press service on Sunday.
On Friday, Prigozhin threatened that Wagner’s fighters could withdraw from the besieged city, where for weeks they have been the main Russian assault force. He accused the Russian military command of depriving Wagner of ammunition and causing him heavy losses.
The threat was a new outbreak of the Prigozhin’s long feud with the Russian military Regulars about credits and tactics in war. In Sunday’s statement, Prigozhin claimed that Russian defense officials had since promised to provide the mercenaries with “ammunition and equipment, as much as is necessary to continue” and to give Wagner a free hand to make operational decisions in Bakhmut.
On Monday, a Ukrainian military spokesman mocked Prigozhin’s claims about a lack of ammunition, stating that Wagner’s problems in Bakhmut they are due rather to a high casualty rate and their inability to replenish their ranks.
“There is no shortage of shells. That is absolutely false,” he said. Serhii Cherevaty, spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces, on Ukrainian television. “There are more than enough shells to fire at our positions.”
(With information from AP)
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