2023-05-28 12:02:00
It was the heaviest drone attack on the Ukrainian capital since the beginning of the war, said the Ukrainian Air Force and spoke of a record use of the so-called Kamikaze drones manufactured in Iran. “In total, the launch of a record number of kamikaze drones was registered: 54!” – the press service of the Ukrainian Air Force said.
52 drones shot down
Although, according to the authorities, 52 of the unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down, there were fatalities. According to the military administration, more than 40 drones were shot down over Kiev alone. It was the 14th attack since the beginning of May, military governor Serhiy Popko said on Telegram. A 41-year-old man was killed and a 35-year-old woman injured by falling parts, Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported on Telegram in the morning. According to later officials, two people were killed and three others injured.
According to Mayor Klitschko, a three-story warehouse in the district of Holosyivskyi in south-west Kiev caught fire following debris from drones hit it. Around 1,000 square meters of building space were destroyed. A fire broke out in Solomyanskyi, western Kiev, following drone debris hit a seven-story building. The district is an important junction for rail and air traffic. A building fire was also reported from the Pechersky district.
Five hour air alert
“This is the most significant drone strike once morest the capital since the beginning of the invasion,” the regional military administration said on Telegram. This took place “in several waves” and the air alert lasted more than five hours. The attack came at dawn on the last Sunday in May, when the capital celebrates Kyiv Day, the anniversary of the city’s official founding 1,541 years ago. This day is usually marked with street festivals, live concerts and exhibitions. Events are also planned this year, albeit on a smaller scale.
Damage was also reported from the regional capital Zhytomyr, around 120 kilometers west of Kiev. But there were no fatalities, Mayor Serhiy Sukhomlyn said on his Facebook page.
Artillery shelling in the Sumy region
In addition to the drone strikes, the Ukrainian authorities also reported artillery shelling of the Sumy region on the border with Russia and the city of Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Nikopol is on the north bank of the Dnipro across from Enerhodar, where the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which has been occupied by Russians since the beginning of the war, is located. Nikopol has therefore been under fire once more and once more for months.
According to official information, the Russian air defense intercepted several drones on Sunday that were flying in the direction of the Ilski oil refinery in the Krasnodar region of Russia. “All were neutralized, the infrastructure of the plant was not damaged,” said employees of the region’s emergency service on Telegram. It is not mentioned who launched the drones. Archyde.com might not independently verify the information. Located near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, the refinery has come under several attacks this month. Krasnodar Krai borders on the Black Sea in the south-west and on the Sea of Azov in the north-east, which is connected to the Black Sea by the Kerch Strait. Russian media reported on Saturday that Ukraine had used drones to attack oil pipelines in northwestern Russia. The incidents happened in the Tver and Pskov regions, neither of which share a border with Ukraine.
According to British intelligence experts, citizens in Russia are increasingly being called upon to actively make sacrifices for the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. “State-backed Russian media and business groups have asked the Economy Ministry to approve a six-day week for workers, apparently without additional pay, in light of the economic demands of the war,” the Defense Ministry’s daily intelligence update said in London on Sunday. On May 21, the leading Russian propagandist and head of the state TV channel RT Margarita Simonyan advocated that citizens should work two hours extra every day in munitions factories following their regular jobs, the intelligence experts reported.
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