Russia launches nearly three dozen drones at Ukraine
Mike Brest
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Ukraine’s military shot down almost all of the nearly three dozen Russian drones launched on Tuesday morning.
The air force said it shot down 32 of 35 Iranian-built Shahed drones, a majority of which targeted the capital, Kyiv.
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Serhiy Popko, the head of Kyiv’s city military administration, said in a statement that the “drones entered the capital in waves” and “from different directions,” adding, “About two dozen enemy targets were identified and destroyed by the forces and means of our air defense in the airspace around Kyiv.”
Maksym Kozytskyi, the head of Lviv’s military administration, said the city’s critical infrastructure was damaged in one of the strikes. The city has largely avoided the war, though they are targeted aerially from time to time.
Several buildings in the Zaporizhzhia region were damaged by shelling on Tuesday as well.
Yurii Malashko, head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration, said the strikes targeted “communications area, property and equipment belonging to an agricultural and farming enterprise, as well as a popular recreation area.”
There were no casualties, Malashko added.
Ukraine is currently attempting to recapture Russian-occupied territory in the southern and eastern parts of the country, and they’ve had some minor success, though the beginning of any counteroffensive is often viewed as the most difficult aspect of one.
“Our heroic people, our troops on the front of the frontline are facing very tough resistance,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week. “Because for Russia to lose this campaign to Ukraine, I would say, actually means losing the war,” Zelensky added, emphasizing the significance of their counteroffensive.
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Ukraine will continue to conduct offensive operations “in several directions” on the war’s southern front, the Ukrainian government’s Centre for Strategic Communication said, adding, “The strategic goal of Ukrainian troops is to liberate all occupied territories. At the same time, success at the front is measured not only by advancing, but also by inflicting maximum losses on the enemy and undermining its defense system in the rear.”
Both Ukraine and Russian leaders have claimed the other side was struggling to stave off the opposing military.