Ukrainian rescuers work to extinguish a fireplace in a residential constructing following a missile assault in Kharkiv on September 15, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. | Photograph credit score: AFP
Russia launched its eighth airstrike in September on kyiv in a single day, with air defence items destroying practically 20 drones heading in direction of the nation’s capital, the Ukrainian navy mentioned on Monday (16 September 2024).
“Russian assault drones had been heading in direction of kyiv from totally different instructions and in several teams,” Sergiy Popko, head of the Kiev navy administration, reported on Telegram. In accordance with preliminary info, there have been no casualties or injury in kyiv.
The size of the assault, which stored Kiev below airstrike alert for round 3.5 hours, will solely be identified in a while Monday (September 16, 2024), it added on the messaging app.
Reuters A sequence of loud explosions had been reported, which seemed to be air defence techniques working.
Moscow had no speedy remark. Russia says its airstrikes solely goal Ukrainian infrastructure that’s key to its battle efforts.
Printed – September 16, 2024 10:23 am IST
