Russia launched a powerful wave of drone and missile attacks on Ukraine on Monday morning, targeting Kiev, Sumy and Kharkiv, officials said.
In the capital Kiev, two people were injured and the attacks caused damage in several neighborhoods, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.
Multiple fires broke out in western Kiev, damaging homes and vehicles. The windows of a metro station were broken, although the metro is still running, Klitschko wrote.
The Kiev military administration reported that the Russian army had sent cruise missiles and drones to attack Kiev. The cruise missiles were fired from Saratov, in Russia’s Volga region.
Ukraine’s air defense said it shot down about 10 cruise missiles and drones over Kiev. The military estimates that a total of nine ballistic missiles, 13 cruise missiles and 20 drones were shot down across the country.
Sumy, on the border with Russia, suffered greater damage than Kiev. Officials said 18 people were injured in Russian rocket attacks, including six children.
Five high-rise buildings and an educational institution were destroyed, police said. Sumy is opposite Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops had advanced during their counteroffensive in early August.
There were also reports of shelling in other regions of Ukraine, with Kharkiv, near the border, also being targeted by new attacks.
A woman was injured in a drone strike overnight, Governor Oleh Synegubov said.
Meanwhile, the city’s industrial area came under fire in the early hours of the morning, with a residential building and three other buildings in a garden area burned down, he said.
