By – Prakarsh Kastwar
According to Kyiv, Russian forces launched two missiles and 35 attack drones throughout Ukraine, with 20 of the UAVs bypassing air defense systems.
Ukraine reported Tuesday that two people were killed and at least five others were injured in the latest nocturnal Russian attacks on the country’s military and energy facilities.
Moscow’s army, meanwhile, said its air defenses shot down 21 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory and the occupied Crimean peninsula, as Kyiv ramps up cross-border aerial attacks.
According to Kyiv, Russian forces launched two missiles and 35 assault drones across Ukraine, with 20 of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) bypassing air defence systems.
“The enemy directed some of the attack UAVs along front line territories, trying to hit fuel and energy infrastructure, and civilian and military facilities near the front line and the state border with the Russia,” the Russian air force said in a statement.
Officials in Kyiv have encouraged Western allies to strengthen the country’s air defense capabilities, stating that gaining control of the country’s airspace is a priority this year.
According to the air force statement, air defense systems in the eastern and southern regions had shot down only 15 Iranian-designed attack drones.
Authorities reported the barrage damaged civilian infrastructure in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv, injuring two persons.
Ukrenergo, a Ukrainian electricity company, stated that one of its substations in a central region had been affected.
Separately, prosecutors in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk area reported a Russian S-300 missile attack that killed one person and injured another.
“A 38-year-old man who was riding his bicycle home from work was killed in an attack.” A fifty-year-old woman was injured. “She was taken to the hospital,” prosecutors stated.
The governor of the southern region of Kherson, which the Kremlin claimed to have annexed alongside the Donetsk region in 2022, said Russian bombardment killed one man and injured his wife.
A man was hurt in the southern Mykolaiv region by falling debris from a grounded Russian drone, according to officials.