Russia launches massive aerial attack on Kyiv, injuring at least 23

Russia launched a monolithic aerial onslaught against Ukraine overnight connected Friday, deploying 550 drones and missiles successful strikes crossed nan country.

Kyiv was nan main target of Moscow's strikes, pinch astatine slightest 23 group injured and 14 of them hospitalised, according to Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko.

The Ukrainian superior was deed straight by 9 missiles and 63 drones, causing harm successful 8 different areas. Debris from nan attacks besides fell crossed much than 30 different locations astir nan city.

Kyiv resident Joseph Haim Roche, whose brother-in-law is defending Ukraine astatine nan frontlines, told Euronews that caller attacks connected nan metropolis person intensified.

"The Shahed drones are acold much galore and deadlier than before, we thin to return shelter moreover for drone attacks—we’ve each sewage a spot paranoid," he said.

Roche recounted his acquisition aft spending a nighttime successful a Kyiv metro station, which residents usage arsenic a shelter during aerial raids.

"In caller nights, we’ve been going to nan metro. There’s a shelter little than 100 metres from our place, but it’s intolerable to walk nan nighttime there. It’s damp, there’s not capable space, and during awesome attacks, it gets measurement excessively crowded," Roche said.

"Honestly, I’m tired, but I deliberation it’s not conscionable because of that. It’s been 3 and a half years of war, you know, truthful we’re starting to get a spot ... it's started to go hard, I guess".

Zelenskyy: Russia shows nary volition of ending nan war

Friday night's onslaught near homes, a school, shops, a aesculapian facility, and galore different civilian infrastructures damaged successful nan city, according to Klitschko.

Following fires group disconnected by nan strikes, residents person been warned astir a crisp diminution successful aerial value owed to nan fume astir nan city. Officials person urged Kyiv citizens to support their windows closed arsenic a precaution.

The hardest-hit districts see Solomianskyi, Holosiivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, Darnytskyi, Dniprovskyi and Shevchenkivskyi.

The city’s railway infrastructure was besides damaged, resulting successful delays of up to 2 hours for passengers.

According to Ukraine's aerial defence forces, 539 Shahed-type drones and decoys were utilized successful nan attack, arsenic good arsenic six ballistic missiles, 4 Iskander cruise missiles, and 1 Kinzhal aeroballistic missile.

However, 478 of nan aerial attacks were changeable down aliases neutralised via physics warfare, and 2 of nan cruise missiles were changeable down.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it was 1 of nan largest-scale aerial attacks, calling it “deliberately monolithic and cynical”.

Ukraine’s president pointed retired that nan first aerial ambush alerts crossed nan state went disconnected “almost simultaneously pinch media reports discussing a telephone telephone betwixt President Trump and Putin”.

“Yet again, Russia is showing it has nary volition of ending nan warfare and terror,” Zelenskyy said.

“All of this is clear grounds that without genuinely large-scale pressure, Russia will not alteration its dumb, destructive behaviour,” Ukraine’s president added, calling connected nan US to put much unit connected Russia pinch tougher sanctions.

“For each specified onslaught against group and quality life, they must consciousness due sanctions and different blows to their economy, their revenues, and their infrastructure."

"This is nan only point that tin beryllium achieved quickly to alteration nan business for nan better. And it depends connected our partners, chiefly nan United States," Zelenskyy concluded.