Russia has reported new attacks on Russian cities and towns, which it blames on Ukraine. kyiv, for its part, says it shot down 30 drones launched overnight and into the early morning.
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Friday started with Ukraine and Russia accusing each other of enemy attacks on their territories. In one of them, in Belgorod, two people died.
Ukrainian authorities announced that they had intercepted more than 30 missiles and drones in new strikes that took place over kyiv overnight and into early Friday morning. “According to preliminary information, more than 30 air targets of various types were detected and destroyed in the airspace over and around Kiev by air defense forces,” the capital’s military official said.
kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko indicated on Telegram that no requests for help were made to the emergency services. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 15 cruise missiles and 18 Iranian-made Shahed drones were used.
The Ukrainian city of Nikopol was also reportedly attacked overnight, according to the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Serhiy Lysak. “The aggressor does not stop. The Nikopol region has been attacked again, ”he said. No one was injured in the attack, but rescue teams are on the ground. “The enemy is insidious and does not give up his tactics of terrorizing the civilian population,” he said.
Russia also reported attacks. Two women have even been killed after a bombing raid in Belgorod, Russia, according to the region’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladko. Sky News writes that the fragments hit some cars on a road in Maslova Pristan, near the Ukrainian border, one of which was carrying two women, who died on the spot from their injuries. Two other people were injured.
The Kyiv Independent writes that drones were launched over the Russian city of Kursk, in the western part of the country, last night. The region’s governor, Roman Starovoyt, indicated on Telegram that the drones were intercepted.
kyiv neither confirmed nor denied the attempted attack. In another message on Thursday, Starovoyt had claimed that the Kursk town of Gogolevka had come under attack, resulting in power outages. Also on May 23, the governor alleged that a drone dropped an explosive device at an electrical substation in the region.
The Guardian adds that Russia claims that two other villages in Russia’s Bryansk region were attacked by Ukrainian forces, who set a house on fire, but no one was injured, according to regional governor Alexander Bogomaz. These are the villages of Lomakovka and Novaya Pogoshch. Ukraine has denied involvement in the attacks on Russian soil.
Source: Observadora
