2023-07-13 07:09:09
A view of an explosion of a drone in the sky over the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 13, 2023. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
Russia launched a new attack once morest kyiv, for the third day in a row and following NATO ended its summit in Lithuania with a solid commitment to back Ukraine.
During the early hours of this Thursday, a dozen Shahed kamikaze drones were shot down in their entirety by Ukrainian air defenses but caused damage to at least two blocks of flats and other infrastructure when their remains fell following being intercepted.
“There has been damage to residential buildings,” said the head of the capital’s Military Administration, Serguí Popko, who also reported two young people aged 19 and 23 who had to be hospitalized when they were hit by fragments of the drones.
The remains of the drones fell in four different districts of the capital. The interceptions set off loud explosions that were heard in central kyiv just before 2am.
“There has been damage to residential buildings,” said the head of the capital’s Military Administration, Serguí Popko, who also reported two young people aged 19 and 23 who had to be hospitalized when they were hit by fragments of the drones. (Archyde.com)
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, its defenses shot down a total of 20 Iranian-made Shahed drones and two Kalibr cruise missiles throughout the national territory.
“We had a successful air defense operation,” said air force spokesman Yuriy Ignat.
The drones “entered the capital from different directions,” according to the kyiv military administration.
Meanwhile, emergency services answered calls in other districts following several “explosions in the capital,” kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
He noted on Telegram that firefighters found a body in the Podilsky district, although the cause of death was unclear.
The drones “entered the capital from different directions,” according to the kyiv military administration. (Archyde.com)
Fires broke out in an apartment building in Shevchenkivsky and in a non-residential building in Podilsky, the mayor added.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces confirmed that several Russian soldiers lost their lives in a Ukrainian attack on the Duna hotel in Berdyansk (southeast), in which, according to several Telegram channels, the Russian general Oleg Tsokov would have died. .
“In the temporarily occupied Berdyansk, in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast, as a result of a direct attack, overnight, it has been confirmed that the bodies of Russian soldiers have been transported by trucks to the local morgue,” read the note from the Ukrainian General Staff, which does not specify the date on which the events occurred.
Berdiansk is located on the shores of the Azov Sea in southeastern Ukraine and was occupied by Russian forces on February 27 last year, two days following the full-scale invasion began.
Ukraine confirmed that several Russian soldiers lost their lives in a Ukrainian attack on the Duna hotel in Berdyansk, including Russian General Oleg Tsokov.
Since the arrival of long-range British Storm Shadow missiles in the country was announced last May, Ukraine has intensified its attacks on infrastructure, weapons, logistics hubs and concentrations of Russian troops located far from the front.
Storm Shadows are precision missiles that are launched from aircraft and hit targets at a maximum distance of more than 250 kilometers. The longest-range Western weapon Ukraine had until it received these missiles were the HIMARS received from the United States, which fire at regarding 50 miles away.
For his part, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky thanked the new military aid in “air defense, missiles, armored vehicles and artillery” obtained from his allies at the NATO summit that concluded on Wednesday in Vilnius.
“We return home with a good result for our country and, very importantly, for our fighters: a good reinforcement of weapons,” Zelensky said in his night address to the nation, recorded from the train that was taking him back to Kiev following participating. at the summit.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky thanked the new military aid in “air defense, missiles, armored vehicles and artillery” obtained from his allies at the NATO summit that concluded on Wednesday in Vilnius. (Archyde.com)
The Ukrainian president also highlighted the “security guarantees” that the G7 governments – the seven most industrialized democracies in the world – promised to negotiate with Ukraine before the country is accepted into NATO.
“With these foundations we will build a new binding legal architecture of bilateral security treaties with the most powerful countries,” Zelensky said.
He also stressed that although NATO did not offer Ukraine a concrete commitment to accept it as a member country following the war with Russia is over, all the leaders of the Alliance signed a declaration in which they affirm that the future of the country is in NATO.
“For the first time, not only all the allies agree to this, but a significant majority of the Alliance is working hard for it,” Zelensky said in a tone that contrasts with the one he showed at the beginning of the summit, when he denounced how “absurd” that Ukraine was not going to be offered an accession timetable.
The Ukrainian president thanked all the NATO leaders one by one for their help to Ukraine and their aspirations to join the Alliance.
(With information from EFE)
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