Shortly after midnight, four to five ballistic missiles detonated in Kyiv before air raid sirens sounded, BBC correspondents report. In the early morning hours, attacks with so-called Shahed drones followed, triggering further explosions in the city.
The head of the Kyiv military administration, Tymur Tkatschenko, confirmed the death of one woman and two injuries. Ukraine’s air force said Russia had deployed a total of two Kh-31P anti-radiation missiles, five ballistic Iskander-M/S-400 missiles, and 169 drones. Air defenses intercepted or neutralized 139 drones but none of the ballistic missiles – they struck four locations. Twenty drones hit eleven sites, and debris was recorded at seven other locations.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported fires in a warehouse in the Desnyansky district and a non-residential building in the Sviatoshynskyi district. At a tram depot, 42 PESA-type carriages were damaged; service is expected to resume within a week.
In parallel, Russia attacked the Odesa region with ballistic missiles – ten people were injured, five were hospitalized, and a 48-year-old man is in critical condition. In Kharkiv, 20 houses were damaged and two people injured. Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed it had struck targets of the military-industrial complex – a claim that cannot be independently verified.
Source: www.bbc.com
