Officials say that a massive Russian attack by drones and rockets in the early Sunday to the Ukrainian capital and other regions aimed for a second night in a row, killed at least 12 people and injured dozens.
The extent of the rush was breathtaking.
Russia met Ukraine with 367 drones and rockets, which, according to Yuriy Ermat, spokeswoman for Ukraine Air Force, was the greatest attack of the more than three -year war. A total of 69 rockets of various types and 298 drones, including in Iranian shahed drones, used a total of 69 rockets, he told the Associated Press.
It was “the most massive strike in relation to the number of air raid weapons on the territory of Ukraine since the beginning of the full invasion in 2022,” said him.
There was no immediate comment from Moscow. For Kyiv, the day was particularly dark when the city of Kyiv watched a national holiday that falls on the last Sunday in May in memory of its foundation in the 5th century.
“Conscious strikes for normal cities”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russian rockets and drones had hit more than 30 cities and villages across Ukraine and asked Western partners to improve sanctions against Russia. This was a long -term demand from the Ukrainian leader, but despite the warnings to Moscow by the United States and Europe are not in a way to prevent Russia.
Zelenskyy wrote about X that the destinations on Sunday Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil, Tschernihiv, Sumy, Odesa, Poltava, Dnipro, Mykola, Kharkiv, Mykola included.
“These were deliberate strikes for normal cities. Ordinary residential buildings were destroyed and damaged,” he said.
“Without really strong pressure on Russian leadership, this brutality cannot be stopped. Sanctions will certainly help. Determination is now important – the determination of the United States, European countries and all around the world who are looking for peace.”
The attack took place on the third day of a planned prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine. The exchange amounted to a rare moment of cooperation between the warfare pages, and another should take place later on Sunday.
The continued Pow exchange, the youngest of dozens of swaps since the beginning of the war, and the largest in which the Ukrainian civilians were involved, has not yet brought the fights. The battles continued along the approximately 1,000 -kilometer front line, where tens of thousands of soldiers were killed, and no country has given in to its deep strikes.
Zelenskyy and Russia’s Ministry of Defense said that each page brought 307 more soldiers home on Saturday, one day after each side, a total of 390 fighters and civilians. After completion, the exchange will be the greatest exchange of prisoners in more than three years of war.
“We are expecting more tomorrow,” said Zelenskyy on Saturday in his official telegram channel.
The Russian Ministry of Defense also said that the exchange would be continued even though there were no details.
The “most massive Russian air raid”
In the meantime, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that its air defenses have shot down 110 Ukrainian drones overnight.
The tones of explosions boomed all night in Kyiv and the surrounding area, when the Ukrainian air defense workers existed for hours to shoot enemy drones and rockets.
According to the Ukraine security service, at least four people were killed in the capital and 16 injured in the capital itself.
“A difficult Sunday morning in Ukraine after a sleepless night. The most massive Russian air raid has been taking all night for many weeks,” said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha on X.
Fires broke out in houses and shops, which were called up by falling drone deposits. According to the emergency service, three children were killed in the Zhytomyr region west of Kyiv eight, 12 and 17 years old. Twelve were injured in the attacks, said the service.
At least four people were killed in the Khmelnytskyi region in western Ukraine. A man was killed in the Mycolaiv region in southern Ukraine.
Fresh attack will follow the rush on Saturday on Saturday
The mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko said that a student dormitory in the Holosiivskyi district had been hit by a drone and one of the walls of the building burned. A private house was destroyed in the Dniprovskyi district and windows were smashed in a residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district. The scope of the use of air force in Russia and the attacks in the past 48 hours have been among the most intense strikes in Ukraine since the full war of Ukraine.
In a village that was burned in smoke and debris in the village of Markhalivka, just outside of Kyiv, in which the overnight strokes were burned, the fedoral cos watched in tears in tears, where they became at home in tears.
“The street looks like Bakhmut, like Mariupol. It’s just terrible,” says 76-year-old Liubov Fedorenko and comparing her village with some of the most devastated cities in Ukraine at war.
She says she is grateful that her daughter and her family had not joined her for the weekend.
“I tried to persuade my daughter to come to us,” said Fedorenko and added, she told her daughter. She said, “No, mom, I’m not coming.” And thank God it didn’t come because the rocket (the house) met on the side where the children’s rooms were. ”
Ivan Fedorenko, 80, said he regretted that her two dogs let the air raid to go into the house after leaving the air raid.
“They burned to death,” he said. “I want to bury her, but I’m not allowed yet.”
Last night, explosions and anti-aircraft fire were heard throughout Kyiv, as many in subway stations were looking for when Russian drones and rockets aimed at the Ukrainian capital.
