Russia launched a drone attack on the Ukrainian capital Kiev early Sunday after relative calm, officials said
Release date – Sunday, July 23 at 09:40 PM
Kyiv: Russia launched the drone attack on the Ukrainian capital Kiev early Sunday after relative calm, officials said. It was the first such attack in 12 days of war.
Serhii Popko, head of the Kiev city government, said all Iranian-made Shahed drones were detected and shot down.
In addition to the city itself, areas around Kiev have also been targeted. Kiev region governor Ruslan Kravchenko reported that one person was injured by debris from a destroyed drone.
Officials in the Ukrainian capital did not provide an exact number of drones that struck the city. But the Ukrainian air force said Russia fired eight Shahid cruise missiles and three Kalibr cruise missiles across the country.
Farther south, a 13-year-old boy was wounded in overnight shelling in Ukraine’s partly-occupied southern province of Kherson, said Oleksandr Tolokonnikov, spokesman for the government of southern Ukraine’s Kherson province .
Tolokonikov said the child was injured when Russian troops shelled the village of Milov on the Dnieper River in the Belislav region.
Tolokonnikov added: “The child is hospitalized, his life is not threatened.”
Shelling continued in Kherson province on Sunday morning, wounding four people in the regional capital, also known as Kherson.
Russian troops operating in a Russian-occupied area of Kherson province attacked a residential complex in the city, the district prosecutor’s office said. “At least four citizens were injured, two of them as a result of a targeted attack on a high-rise building,” the office wrote on Telegram.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military reported that the heaviest fighting continued in eastern Ukraine’s industrial region, with attacks centered around Bakmut, Malinka and Lyman in the country’s Donetsk province, where 46 people were killed. fight conflict.
Serhii Cherevaty, a spokesman for Ukrainian forces in the east, told Ukrainian state television that Ukrainian troops were launching a “massive offensive” on the north and south sides of the devastated city of Bakhmut.
But he did not mention how much progress they had made. Details will be released once the Ukrainian military has analyzed the situation and consolidated its position, he said.
In the past 24 hours, Russia has launched 27 airstrikes, 1 missile attack and about 80 multiple rocket launch attacks against Russia’s northern, northeastern, eastern and southern regions, the General Staff said in a routine update on Sunday morning . nation.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Black Sea port city of Odessa on Sunday to hear from naval commanders, discuss prospects for the development of the navy’s drone and missile programs and present awards. Serve members.
In Russia, local officials reported that air defenses shot down a drone in the Belgorod region on the border with Ukraine, while the neighboring Kursk region faced shelling. No casualties or damage were reported.
Russian authorities remain defiant following last week’s drama of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s rebellion.
Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the State Duma, Russia’s lower house of parliament, said on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s escape from the situation had “further strengthened his position at home and in the world”. Russian society “has passed this test and has shown maturity,” he said. According to Volodin, “there is not a single instance of anyone supporting the rebellion”.
But General Sergei Surovkin, the deputy commander of Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, is believed to have been detained days after the defection.
It is unclear whether Surovkin, who has longstanding ties to Prigozhin, faces any charges or where he is being held, reflecting the opaque world of Kremlin politics and post-insurgency uncertainty.
Volodin wrote on Telegram that the Russian president “made every effort to prevent bloodshed and chaos,” including explaining “the real situation” to Wagner fighters. “(Putin) advises those who want to defend Russia to continue serving with arms in hand. As far as I know, many of them agree with this,” Volodin said.
In addition, the Speaker of the State Duma stated that he analyzed the “challenges” Russia faced in the past, confirming that if “someone like Putin” had led the country in 1917 and 1991, there would have been no revolution in Russia and the collapse of the USSR .
But independent observers and analysts said Putin could be weakened politically after first announcing that Wagner would face harsh consequences and later saying the group’s forces would not face prosecution.
Prigozhin was also allowed to leave Russia for Belarus.
Polish Interior Minister Mayusz Kaminski said Sunday that Poland would send 500 police officers to join the 5,000 border guards and 2,000 soldiers already on the country’s border with Belarus.
Earlier this week, Poland announced it would strengthen defenses on its eastern border after transferring Wagner fighters to Belarus.
