Russian night airstrikes in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities

New “massive” Russian airstrikes targeted overnight Monday into Tuesday the Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, including Lviv (west) and Zaporizhia (south), military authorities saidof Ukraine, in which there is so far no information on casualties.

The civil-military administration of Kyiv spoke of a “new massive air attack against the capital” via Telegram. According to her, unmanned kamikaze drones attacked the city in waves from different directions.

“There are no reports of casualties or damage at this time”he added and clarified that the alarm lasted more than three hours.

The Ukrainian General Staff later claimed to have shot down 28 of the 30 Russian UAVs sent to strike targets in Ukraine at night.

In Lviv (west), it was hit by “flying munitions” of the “critical infrastructure” type, the head of the regional administration Maksim Kozytsky said via Telegram, without giving further details. He said there were no injuries.

The military administration in Zaporizhia (south), for its part, said that the city and its surroundings became the target of a “massive attack” against civilian targets. The Ukrainian General Staff claimed for its part that seven missiles were fired from S-300 systems against land targets in and around Zaporizhia.

After “a restless and noisy night, the situation in Zaporizhzhya is stable, thank God, there are no injuries and no houses were hit”, the secretary of the city council, Anatoly Kurtev, said via Telegram, as relayed by the Athens News Agency.

Yuri Malashko, head of the military administration in the Zaporizhia region (southeast), reported via Telegram that Russian airstrikes targeted telecommunication infrastructure, agricultural and livestock units.