Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said 22 drones were destroyed over the capital.
RUSSIA HAS DEPLOYED multiple drones overnight to attack parts of Ukraine and dozens were shot down, Ukrainian officials have said, after a series of attacks through the weekend that killed three civilians on New Year’s Eve.
He said 22 were destroyed over the capital, three in the outlying region and 15 over neighbouring provinces.Energy infrastructure facilities in Kyiv were damaged and an explosion occurred in one city district, the mayor said. It was not immediately clear whether that was caused by drones or other munitions.
In the outlying Kyiv region, a “critical infrastructure object” and residential buildings were hit, governor Oleksiy Kuleba said. A missile was also destroyed in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to Reznichenko. He said energy infrastructure in the region was being targeted.A New Year’s Eve assault killed at least three civilians across the country and wounded dozens, Ukrainian authorities reported.
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