Russia Attacks Northern And Central Ukraine Overnight With Aircraft

 

27 August (Reuters) According to authorities, on Sunday night, Russia attacked Ukraine from the air, firing missiles over various northern and central regions of the nation.

Out of up to eight total airborne targets discovered, the Ukrainian military reported shooting down four cruise missiles, noting that the remaining targets were "probably false."

Additionally, it stated that there were no recent reports of strikes.

Ruslan Kravchenko, the governor of the Kyiv region, reported that 10 structures had been destroyed and two persons had been injured as a result of falling missile debris in an unidentified part of the area.

He issued a statement saying, "Thanks to the expert work of the air defense forces, there were no strikes on critical or residential infrastructure."

Early on Sunday, all of Ukraine was on air raid alert for almost three hours before it was lifted at about six in the morning (0300 GMT).

As part of its 18-month-old full-scale invasion, Russia has conducted a campaign of routine air strikes using missiles and drones on Ukrainian targets far from the front line.

On Sunday, the Russian defense ministry said on the Telegram messaging service that its forces had shot down two drones over the course of the previous night in the bordering Ukrainian regions of Bryansk and Kursk.

The ministry reported that during the night and early hours of August 27, "the regime in Kiev made further attempts to carry out terror attacks using fixed-wing drones on targets in the Russian Federation."

There was no mention of potential casualties or damage.

Roman Starovoit, the governor of the Kursk area, shared images on his Telegram channel that he said showed window-blown damage to an apartment building in Kursk caused by a drone.

Since two drones were shot down above the Kremlin in early May, drone attacks against Russian targets, particularly in Crimea (which Moscow invaded in 2014) and in regions bordering Ukraine, have nearly become a daily occurrence.

In recent weeks, the attacks have caused delays for flights into and out of Moscow. Ukraine rarely admits direct responsibility for such drone attacks, but claims that obliterating Russian military facilities aids in its counteroffensive, which it launched in June.