KYIV, Ukraine — After a relative lull, Russia introduced a drone attack early Sunday on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, authorities stated. It was the veryfirst such attack of the war in 12 days.
All of the Iranian-made Shahed blowingup drones were found and shot down, according to Serhii Popko, the head of the Kyiv city administration. In addition to the city itself, the surrounding Kyiv area was targeted. Kyiv local Gov. Ruslan Kravchenko reported that one individual was injured by falling particles from a damaged drone.
Officials in the Ukrainian capital didn’t supply an specific number of drones that assaulted the city. But Ukraine’s air force stated that throughout the nation, 8 Shaheds and 3 Kalibr cruise rockets were released by the Russians.
Further south, a 13-year-old kid was injured in overnight shelling of Ukraine’s partly inhabited southern Kherson province, stated Oleksandr Tolokonnikov, representative for the Ukrainian administration of the province.
The kid was injured when the Russian army shelled the town of Mylove on the banks of the Dnieper River in the Beryslav district, Tolokonnikov stated.
“The kid was hospitalized, there is no risk to his life,” Tolokonnikov included,” he stated on state TELEVISION.
Shelling of Kherson province continued Sunday earlymorning, wounding 4 individuals in the local capital, likewise called Kherson. The local districtattorney’s workplace stated that a domestic location of the city was targeted by Russian soldiers operating in the Russia-occupied part of the Kherson province. “
“At least 4 people were injured, 2 of them due to a targeted strike on a high-rise structure,” the workplace composed on Telegram.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s military reported that the most extreme battling continued in Ukraine’s commercial east, with attacks focused around Bakhmut, Marinka and Lyman in the nation’s Donetsk province, where 46 fight clashes took location.
Ukrainian forces were advancing inthemiddleof a “massive offending” on the southern and northern flanks of the damaged city of Bakhmut, U