Multiple explosive drones attacked Ukraine's capital before dawn Monday, local authorities reported, as Russian President Vladimir Putin prepared to visit ally Belarus, which provided the Kremlin's forces with a launch pad for Russia's invasion of Ukraine almost 10 months ago.
The drone attack came three days after what Ukrainian officials described as one of Russia's biggest assaults on Kyiv since the war started and as Moscow presses on with its effort to torment Ukraine from the air amid a broad battlefield stalemate.Russia launched 23 self-exploding drones over Kyiv while the city slept, but Ukrainian forces shot down 18 of them, the Kyiv city administration said on Telegram.
"In the night when everyone is waiting for a miracle, the terrorist country continues to terrorize the peaceful Ukrainian people," Ukraine's human rights chief, Dmytro Lubinets, said. "I feel really anxious," she said. "Anxious because you never know at which moment there will be an incoming missile."Although the capital appeared to be the main target of the latest Russian attack, the armed forces said other places in the country were also targeted.
Moscow has targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure, including in Kyiv, since October as part of a strategy to try to leave the country without heat and light during the bitterly cold winter. It has kept up that effort despite Western sanctions and the supply of Western air defence systems to Ukrainian forces.
Some 14,000 people in Belgorod were left without power Monday as the result of Ukrainian shelling, the region's governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said on Telegram.
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