Kyiv claims to have intercepted dozens of Russian 'drones' and missiles
The Ukrainian Air Force said on Tuesday it had shot down dozens of missiles and "kamikaze drones" launched by Russia overnight across the country in an attack that targeted energy facilities.
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"The enemy used 76 air attack weapons, including 55 missiles and 21 attack drones," the air force said on social media, adding that air defence systems had intercepted 39 missiles and 20 drones.
The Russian strikes hit seven regions of Ukraine early Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
The attacks also damaged the railway station and tracks in the Russian-held city of Kherson on the Dnieper River, and wounded two people in Brovary, near Kyiv.
Russia has been relentlessly targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure.
In a post on social media, Zelensky noted that Wednesday’s attacks came as Ukraine marked the end of fighting in Europe in World War II (1939-1945).
“The whole world must clearly understand who is who; the whole world has no right to give Nazism another chance,” Zelensky charged.
Ukraine’s grid operator, Ukrenergo, said facilities were hit in the Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia, Kirovohrad, Poltava and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.
Two energy facilities were hit in the western Lviv region, far from the front lines, regional governor Maksym Kozytskyi said.
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