Several hurt in Kyiv after Russia attacks Ukraine with 89 drones

Ukrainian officials said Wednesday that Russian forces launched 89 drones successful a question of overnight attacks that near 3 radical injured successful Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.

Serhiy Popko, caput of Kyiv’s City Military Administration, said connected Telegram that falling debris from a destroyed drone damaged a building.

Ukrainian aerial defenses changeable down 36 of the 89 drones, the country’s subject said.

In summation to Kyiv, intercepts took spot implicit the Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Sumy, and Zhytomyr regions.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday it changeable down 25 Ukrainian drones implicit the Black Sea and Russia-occupied Crimea.

That followed different 22 drones that Russian aerial defenses changeable down overnight, the ministry said.

Most of the drones were changeable down successful areas on the Russia-Ukraine border, including implicit the Rostov, Belgorod, Voronezh, Kursk and Bryansk regions.

There were nary reports of large harm from the Ukrainian attacks.

“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 code Tuesday.

“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.”

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