After a few days of relative calm, Russia has again launched a nightly drone strike on Kyiv and the surrounding region after a 12-day break. However, the military administration of the capital has reported that the air defense systems have destroyed all the drones and the attack has only resulted in one injury.
The Ukrainian air force has claimed that eight Iranian-made Shahed drones and three cruise missiles were involved in the Russian attack, all of which were shot down.
“Another enemy attack on Kyiv,” Serhiy Popko, the colonel-general who heads Kyiv's military administration, said via Telegram.
Three private houses have been damaged as a result of falling debris from drones in the Kyiv region, injuring one person, the region's military chief Ruslan Kravchenko said on Facebook. “Unfortunately, a resident of one of the buildings was injured. He was injured in the leg. He was provided with the necessary medical assistance, ”Kravchenko added.
An anti-aircraft alert has been declared in Kyiv and in most of the southern and eastern regions of the country due to the possibility of Russian attacks with drones or ballistic missiles.
Russia has intensified its nightly bombardments of Ukraine with explosive drones and missiles since last May, when Kyiv began its long-awaited counter-offensive in the east and south of the country, occupied by Russian troops.
In Russia, local officials have reported that air defense systems shot down a drone over the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, while the neighboring Kursk region has been hit by shelling with no reported casualties or damage.
After the drama of the rebellion of the head of the Wagner group, Yevgeni Prigozhin, a week ago, the Russian authorities remained defiant. Vyacheslav Volodin, president of the Duma, has assured this Sunday that Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has come out of the failed coup attempt "having strengthened his position even more both in the country and in the world."
According to Volodin, "there was not a single example of someone supporting the rebellion." But General Sergei Surovikin, deputy commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, is believed to have been detained days after the riot. It is unclear whether Surovikin, who has long-standing ties to Prigozhin, is charged with a crime or where he is being held, reflecting the opacity of Kremlin policy and uncertainty after the revolt.
In addition, the Duma chairman has said that after analyzing Russia's past "challenges", he believed that if "someone like Putin" had been in charge of the country in 1917 or 1991, there would not have been a revolution in Russia and the USSR would not have collapsed.
