It is the largest attack “in a long time”, and Poland has confirmed the entry into its airspace of “an unidentified aerial object” from Ukraine.
A wave of Russian drone and missile attacks, the most massive in recent months, has caused several deaths, numerous injuries and damage in several parts of Ukraine, including the capital Kiev and the country’s largest urban centers.
Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuri Ihnat said in televised statements that such a barrage of Russian missiles had not occurred “in a long time.”
The mayor of KievVitali Klitschkó has announced that one civilian has been killed and four have been rescued from the rubble of a warehouse struck by fragments of a projectile, while one remains missing.
In LvivAccording to the head of the regional military government, Maksym Kozytskyi, a rocket that hit an apartment building killed one person and injured three others.
The mayor of that city has announced that more than a dozen Shahed-type kamikaze drones have been launched against the border area with Poland.
In the region of DniproPetrovsk (center) the head of the military government, Sergei Lysak, speaks of a “tragic morning” when Russian missiles “hit almost a dozen people and killed four people.”
In the provincial capital Dnipro, a projectile hit a shopping center, causing a fire and damage to a mother and child hospital.
In Odessa (south), authorities have so far registered two deaths and hospitalized fifteen civilians, including two children aged six and eight who were injured in rocket attacks on apartment buildings.
Overnight, Russia also launched a wave of drones, one of which hit infrastructure, although at least a dozen of them were shot down by anti-aircraft fire, according to the president of the regional military administration, Oleg Kiper.
Poland
For their part, the Polish authorities confirmed this Friday access to their airspace from “a unknown aerial object“Arrived from Ukrainian territory.
The Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces noted that “an unidentified aerial object entered Polish airspace from across the border with Ukraine” and added that “from the moment it crossed the border until the signal disappeared, it was followed by the radars of the Polish Armed Forces.” the country’s air defense system.
Source: EITB
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