Russia targets essential infrastructure in drone assaults on Kyiv and its area, officers sayYesterday

Russia has been focusing on Ukraine’s essential infrastructure in a collection of drone assaults early on Monday on Kyiv and the area surrounding it, officers stated.

Russia stored pounding Kyiv for the second evening in a row, after firing a barrage of missiles over the capital on New 12 months’s Eve evening and earlier within the day.

“It’s loud within the area and within the capital: evening drone assaults,” Kyiv Governor Oleksiy Kuleba stated on the Telegram messaging app.

“Russians launched a number of waves of (Iranian-made) Shahed drones. Concentrating on essential infrastructure services. Air defence is at work.”

By 3 a.m. native time (0100 GMT), Ukraine’s air defence techniques destroyed 16 air objects above Kyiv, town’s army administration stated. Air raid sirens have been wailing by that point for greater than three hours.

Earlier within the evening, particles from a destroyed drone over Kyiv hit the capital’s northeastern district, wounding one, town’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated.

A 19-year-old man was taken to a hospital in Kyiv’s Desnianskiy district, Klitschko stated on the Telegram messaging app, after drone particles hit a highway there and broken a constructing.

Reuters was not in a position to independently confirm the data.

Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Ukrainian presidential aide, stated drone particles hit a highway within the Desnianskiy district, in Kyiv’s northeast, damaging a constructing subsequent to it.

The district, positioned on the left financial institution of the Dnipro River, is mainly a residential space and the capital’s most populous district.

Ukraine’s regional army command within the nation’s east stated air defence techniques destroyed 9 Iranian-made Shahed drones over the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia areas by early hours of Monday.