Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday that their air defense shot down 58 of the 59 drones sent by Russia overnight, mainly in the capital kyiv.
“The Russian Federation carried out another massive attack on the territory of Ukraine using Iranian Shahed attack drones,” the General Staff of Ukraine said.
“According to updated information, 58 of the 59 [‘drones’] were shot down by our defenders,” he said.
Previously, the military authorities had announced the destruction of 52 ‘drones’ out of 54. According to Kiev, its armed forces countered “the most important ‘drone attack'” against the capital since the beginning of the Russian invasion, which, however, caused two deaths and three injuries.
“The Russian Federation carried out another large-scale attack on the territory of Ukraine” using Shahed drones.
The Russians mainly sought to attack “military installations and essential infrastructure in the central regions of the country, in particular in the kyiv region,” the air force explained.
Military authorities specified that 40 of these ‘drones’ were sent to the capital, being attacked for the fourteenth time in a month, an unprecedented series.
Russia, for its part, accused, through its Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, the West of “playing with fire” after the recent agreement given by the United States for future deliveries of F-16 fighters to Ukraine, denouncing a ” unacceptable escalation.” “.
The military offensive launched on February 24, 2022 by Russia in Ukraine has so far caused the flight of more than 14.7 million people -6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 8.2 million to European countries-, according to the latest data from the UN, which classifies this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945).
Source: TSF
