Russia targets Kyiv, Odesa in latest drone attack

Russia unleashed an overnight drone onslaught crossed Ukraine targeting the capital, Kyiv, and hitting infrastructure successful the Black Sea larboard of Odesa, Ukrainian officials said Sunday.

The State Emergency Service said 1 idiosyncratic was wounded and warehouses and cargo trucks were damaged successful Odesa during the multiwave attack, which kept overmuch of the state nether aerial raid alert for respective hours.

The Ukrainian subject changeable down 56 retired of astatine slightest 87 drones launched by Russia implicit assorted regions of the country, the aerial unit said. It added that different 25 were "lost" owed to physics jamming but did not elaborate.

Kyiv metropolis subject head Serhiy Popko said aerial defenses destroyed each the drones that had been aimed astatine the capital. No injuries were reported.

Air raid alerts for Kyiv and the surrounding portion were announced 3 times passim the night, totaling much than 5 hours, Popko added.

Reuters could not independently verify the reports.

Russia has denied targeting civilians successful its full-scale penetration of Ukraine, begun successful February 2022, but regularly launches missiles, drones and bombs astatine colonisation centers acold down the beforehand line.