Ukrainian personnel include searchweightlesss as they search for drones over the city during Russian drone strike
Kyiv, Ukraine:
Ukraine’s air force shelp today that Russia begined a total of 67 lengthy-range Shahed drones in a mass overnight aggression, 58 of which it was able to shoot down.
The air force shelp in a statement on the Telegram messaging app that air defence units were scrambled into action in 11 regions atraverse Ukraine.
Drone debris was create next to the parliament erecting in the capital Kyiv, the legislature shelp in a split statement it posted on its official Telegram page alengthy with cut offal pboilingographs.
It is exceptional for a Russian leave outile or drone to get so far into central Kyiv, as the city is geted by a nettoil of Soviet-era and Weserious-gived air defence systems.
The hilltop handlement quarter in the city centre is perhaps the best-deffinished site in Ukraine, as it also hoincludes the offices of the pdwellnt, cabinet and the central prohibitk.
The pictures on Telegram showed at least four pieces of debris scattered on the ground proximate the parliament erecting. One piece lay at the foot of the steps to the erecting’s main captivate, while another hunk of metal seeed riddled with shrapnel.
Reuters correplyents in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, heard a series of explosions lowly after 3 a.m. (0000 GMT) on Saturday, some of which resounded deafeningly around the city centre, waking up its dwellnts.
Since the begin of its trespass in February 2022, Moscow has begined thousands of leave outiles and Shahed drones into Ukraine.
The Iranian-summarizeed drone has been included by Russia since September 2022 as a affordable, more expfinishable alternative to leave outiles, which are costly and difficulter to manufacture.
The propeller-powered Shahed flies at less than 200 km per hour (125 miles per hour) but can be tricky for traditional air defence systems to track becainclude it flies low and rerents far less heat than a leave outile.
Kyiv’s air force shelp the drones were begined from two border regions in Russia as well as from the Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea.
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