Ukraine says Russia launched new drone attacks on three regions | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia has launched a lot of waves of drone assaults on the Kyiv, Poltava and Cherkasy areas of Ukraine, stepping up its assaults on the Ukrainian capital after a lot of weeks of respite, in accordance with Ukrainian officers.

“The enemy’s UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] have been launched in a number of groups and attacked Kyiv in waves, from completely totally different directions, on the an identical time regularly altering the vectors of movement alongside the route,” Serhiy Popko, the highest of Kyiv’s military administration, talked about in a message on Telegram messaging app early on Sunday.

“That’s the rationale the air raid alerts have been launched a lot of cases throughout the capital.”

Popko talked about preliminary information indicated that Ukraine’s air defence methods downed 10 Iranian-made Shahed kamikaze drones in Kyiv and city’s outskirts.

There have been no preliminary experiences of “essential damage” or casualties, he talked about.

The Ukrainian Air Strain talked about on its official Fb internet web page on Sunday morning that Russia attacked the Ukrainian territories from its Kursk space.

It talked about air defences shot down 15 out of 20 drones that carried out the strikes.

The experiences couldn’t independently be verified and there was no prompt comment from Russia.

Intensified Russian assaults anticipated

Russia began ending up strikes on Ukraine’s vitality, military and transport infrastructure in October 2022, six months after Moscow’s troops didn’t take over the capital and withdrew to Ukraine’s east and south.

Ultimate winter, Russia pounded Ukraine with a complete bunch of missiles and drones, leaving millions without electricity, heating and water in the midst of the coldest months of the 12 months – sooner than easing the assaults within the summertime.

After a pause of 52 days, Moscow resumed air strikes on Kyiv earlier this month. On Saturday, Ukrainian officers talked about all drones heading within the route of Kyiv have been destroyed, nevertheless some hit infrastructure facilities elsewhere in Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and totally different officers have warned that Russia will resume its large-scale bombardment of Ukrainian civilian infrastructure in the midst of the winter months.

In his daily video message on Saturday night time, Zelenskyy launched new steps to bolster Ukraine’s air defences throughout the coming weeks.

“The nearer we get to winter, the bigger Russia’s efforts is perhaps to step up its assaults,” Zelenskyy talked about.