After Russia launched the largest ‘kamikaze’ drone strike on Kiev since Moscow began its war in February 2022, air raid sirens wailed across Ukraine.
According to Vitaliy Klitschko, the mayor of Kiev, approximately 60 drones were fired by Russia on Monday, and 36 of them were destroyed, the BBC reported.
Klitschko claimed that drone debris from fallen aircraft had hurt five people.
This assault on Kiev was the capital city’s fourth in eight days, and it occurred only one day before Russia’s triumph Day, which honours the former Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany in World War Two.
According to Kiev’s military administration, emergency services were called when drone debris fell onto a runway at Zhuliany international airport, one of the capital city’s two commercial airports.
According to the authorities, civilians were hurt when drone debris impacted a home in the Shevchenkivskyi area of downtown Kiev.
The BBC cited Ukrainian authorities as stating that a warehouse in the Black Sea port city of Odesa caught fire after eight missiles were launched at targets by Russian planes.
The Red Cross of Ukraine said in a statement that due to the destruction of its warehouse holding humanitarian goods, all relief deliveries had to be stopped.
Later, Natalia Humeniuk, a spokesman for Ukraine’s Southern Command, said that a security guard’s corpse had been recovered from the debris.
Additionally, reports of missile attacks came from the Kherson, Kharkiv, and Mykolaiv districts.
In two villages in Kherson, at least eight people, including a toddler, were hurt.