Russia launches largest drone attack of war, pushes deeper into Ukraine

Russia launched its largest drone onslaught connected Ukraine overnight with 188 drones, Ukraine's aerial unit said Tuesday.

Ukraine's subject said it changeable down 76 Russian drones successful the overnight attacks that targeted areas crossed the state and damaged captious infrastructure facilities.

The aerial unit said Russia besides utilized 4 missiles successful the aerial assault.

"Unfortunately, determination were hits to captious infrastructure facilities, and backstage and flat buildings were damaged successful respective regions owed to the monolithic drone attack," according to an aerial unit statement.

The onslaught coincided with a propulsion by Russia connected the beforehand lines successful eastbound Ukraine, wherever Russia claimed to person gained astir 240 quadrate kilometers successful the past week, for a full of astir 600 quadrate kilometers successful November, Reuters reported, citing the Russian service and different analysts.

For its part, Ukraine reporting repelling Russian troops from Kupiansk, a logistical halfway successful Kharkiv, for the 3rd time, according to Reuters.

"The lone effectual mode to support ourselves from this is to destruct Russian weapons and Russian launchers straight connected Russian territory," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said successful his nightly address.

"That is wherefore the quality to onslaught Russian territory is truthful important to us. This is the lone origin that tin bounds Russian panic and Russia's capableness to wage warfare successful general," helium added.

Countries that person fixed Ukraine weapons to combat Russia person been reluctant to springiness Ukraine support to motorboat those weapons straight into Russia, but Zelenskyy said helium is "grateful to each the partners who recognize this and convey it to different partners."

"Nearly 200 Russian drones against Ukraine successful 1 time — that is astir 200 proofs that Russian ambitions are utterly detached from immoderate ideas of existent peace," Zelenskyy said.

Ukraine's president said rescue operations are inactive underway successful Sumy, wherever Russia's barrage of drones targeted a conveyance work station. The president said 2 radical had been killed successful Sumy and "one idiosyncratic is apt inactive trapped nether the rubble."

Ukrainian aerial defenses changeable down drones successful the Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia and Zhytomyr regions.

The powerfulness grid of Ternopil successful occidental Ukraine, astir 134 miles eastbound of Poland was deed successful the attack.

"The consequences are atrocious due to the fact that the installation was importantly affected and this volition person interaction connected the powerfulness proviso of the full portion for a agelong time," the politician of Tenopil, Vyacheslav Nehoda, said successful a televised address.

Serhiy Lysak, politician of Dnipropetrovsk, said connected Telegram that 1 drone deed the halfway of Nikopol.

Russia's Defense Ministry said Tuesday it changeable down 39 Ukrainian aerial drones overnight.

Most of the drones were changeable down implicit the Rostov region, with different intercepts taking spot implicit Bryansk, Belgorod, Kursk, Oryol, Voronezh and Russia-occupied Crimea.

Officials successful Rostov, Bryansk and Voronezh said connected Telegram determination were nary reports of harm oregon casualties from the attacks.

Some accusation for this study was provided by The Associated Press and Reuters.