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Ukrainian officials say Russian forces launched a major drone assault on Kyiv overnight as well as attacking other regions.
The Ukrainian General Staff later said of the 30 drones launched by Russian forces overnight, 28 were shot down by Ukrainian air defences.
The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said air defence destroyed 28 of the 30 Iranian-made Shahed drones launched by Russia.
Serhiy Popko, the head of the military administration in Kiev, reported that some 20 drones had been shot down around the capital city alone, according to preliminary information.
“Another massive air attack on the capital.
“This is only the second attack by Iranian drones on Kiev since the beginning of the month and the first in the last 18 days,’’ Popko wrote on Telegram.
There was no information about damage or casualties.
The eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhya was attacked with seven S-300 missiles, the general staff said.
A damage assessment from the bombardment was still being conducted.
Zaporizhzhya lies less than 50 kilometres from the front line.
The western Ukrainian city of Lviv, which had so far been largely unscathed by the nearly 16-month war, was also the target of rare airstrikes.
There were several explosions overnight, Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said on Telegram.
The head of the military administration for Lviv, Maksym Kozytskyi, gave the all-clear around 5 am (0200 GMT).
He said that a critical infrastructure site had been hit but that nobody was injured. (dpa/NAN)