KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s air defenses battled an in a single day Russian aerial assault on the capital Kyiv for 5 hours, officers stated Thursday, as missiles and drones once more hammered the Ukrainian energy grid.
The Kyiv assault injured a minimum of two folks, Ukraine’s Emergency Service stated.
A kindergarten, a gasoline pipe and round 20 vehicles had been broken within the metropolis, stated the Kyiv Navy Administration.
In western Ukraine, the air pressure stated, Russia fired three Kinzhal hypersonic ballistic missiles — one in every of Russia’s most superior weapons — “within the route of” Starokostiantyniv, a metropolis within the Khmelnytskyi area, on Thursday morning.
The air pressure stated it couldn’t make additional info public, suggesting the missiles had been geared toward a delicate website.
Lengthy-range strikes have been an indicator of Russia’s navy marketing campaign in Ukraine, now deep in its third 12 months, usually hitting civilian areas.
Assaults on the electrical energy community have knocked out round 70% of Ukraine’s vitality technology capability, based on the United Nations, bringing blackouts as winter approaches.
Air protection methods are a important want for Ukraine, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was as a result of meet President Biden in Washington on Thursday in an effort to make sure persevering with U.S. navy assist for his nation.
Power infrastructure was hit in Ukraine’s western Ivano-Frankivsk area, inflicting a blackout in elements of the regional capital of the identical title, regional Gov. Svitlana Onyshchuk stated.
The facility grid was additionally focused within the southern Mykolaiv area, native authorities stated with out instantly offering additional particulars.
Russia launched six missiles and 78 Shahed drones at Ukraine in a single day from Wednesday to Thursday, Ukraine’s air pressure stated. Defenses destroyed 4 of the missiles and 66 drones within the air, it stated.
Within the south, a missile killed a 62-year-old lady within the Odesa area, the place houses and vehicles had been broken, regional Gov. Oleh Kiper stated.
Within the metropolis of Zaporizhzhia, a minimum of 10 folks had been injured within the in a single day assault, together with a 14-year-old, stated regional governor Ivan Fedorov.
He printed pictures of homes with their home windows blown out and partitions riddled with shrapnel. The Emergency Service stated 12 residential buildings had been broken within the metropolis and 18 folks had been evacuated.
In the meantime, within the northeastern Sumy area ordnance specialists defused a 500-kilogram (1,100-pound) glide bomb that landed with out exploding subsequent to a bridge over the River Psel.
