Kyiv and Odesa targeted with further drone attacks overnight
Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and the port city of Odesa were targeted in further attempted drone strikes overnight, Ukrainian officials said.
Serhiy Popko, the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, said on Telegram that the capital had been targeted again with drones and missiles, marking the “third attack on the capital over four days of May.”
“Our city has not suffered such a dense intensity of strikes since the beginning of this year,” Popko said. The air raid alert in Kyiv lasted over three hours last night. Popko said the drones and missiles were destroyed, although the debris from destroyed drones damaged some buildings and parked cars. No casualties were reported, he said.
A member of the mobile air defense group, called “drone hunters,” checks a machine gun placed on top of a pickup truck at the Hostomel airfield near Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 1, 2023.
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Separately, Ukraine’s southern command grouping said 12 out of 15 drones used to attack Odesa overnight were destroyed.
Ukraine’s air force said it destroyed 18 out of 24 Iranian-made “Shahed-136/131 combat drones” that were launched overnight by Russia from its Western Bryansk region, and from the eastern coast of the Sea of Azov. The drones were shot down in the northern, central, and southern regions of Ukraine, it said.
CNBC was unable to immediately verify the details within the reports.
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