This is the 15th Russian air strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv this month, and the second nocturnal bombing in a succession, according to authorities. On Monday morning, Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced on the Telegram message channel that a missile had been shot down near Kyiv. The anti-air system is active! Falling debris destroyed the roof of a home in the historic quarter of Podil in Kyiv, he said, and explosions could be heard in other areas of the city.
Preliminary reports from the city’s mayor and the military administration indicate that nobody was killed in the nocturnal strikes. On Sunday night, the heaviest drone assault ever unleashed on Kyiv killed one and injured numerous others. On Monday, what appears to be a mix of missiles and drones attacked the city. Officials said that, during the early hours of Saturday and early Sunday, air defenses in and around the nation’s capital shot down 40 drones. According to the Kyiv Independent, the majority of the drones were Iranian Shahed loitering weapons. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine congratulated the air defense forces for safeguarding the nation and requested parliament to censure Iran for supplying Russia with weaponry, especially the Shahed drones. Russian aggression on Ukraine has increased to many times weekly.
It is too early to tell how extensive Monday’s strike was. While the city and the whole of Ukraine were on air raid alert early on Monday, reporter reported hearing three loud explosions. Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion 15 months ago, Moscow has ramped up its operations, focusing on military infrastructure and supplies in anticipation of a long-promised Ukrainian counteroffensive to retake territory lost to Russia. Russia has blamed Ukraine for a slew of strikes on Russian soil that hit military, energy, and transportation facilities, despite the fact that Kyiv practically never officially claims credit for attacks within Russia.
