Russia attacks Ukrainian cities in night air strikes

KIEV (Reuters) – Russia launched a large-scale air attack over Ukraine on Tuesday, targeting military and infrastructure facilities in Kiev and other cities, officials said on Tuesday.

Ukraine said it had shot down 32 of the 35 Iranian-made drones launched from Russia’s Bryansk region and the Sea of ​​Azov.

There has been no sign of casualties in the latest air strikes by Moscow since Kiev launched a counter-offensive in which it said it had recaptured 113 square km of territory from Russian forces.

The Air Force said on the Telegram messaging app that air defenses were operating in most regions of Ukraine.

“However, the main direction of attack by Iranian drones was the Kiev region. More than two dozen witnesses were destroyed here,” she said on the Telegram messaging app.

Serhiy Popko, head of the Kiev military department, said the air alert in the capital lasted more than three hours. He gave no details of any damage.

Officials said an unidentified vital infrastructure facility was bombed in Lviv, about 70 km from the border with NATO member Poland, and some tram routes were changed during the morning rush hour.

“They hit a very important facility. There were three casualties,” said the region’s governor, Maksim Kozitsky.

The air force said Russia also bombed the industrial city of Zaporizhia in the southeast of the country with S-300 Iskander missiles.

Yuri Malashko, head of the military administration for the Zaporizhia region, said Russia had targeted communications infrastructure, farming and farming property.

According to preliminary information, the Ukrainian military said that Russia had fired seven missiles at Zaporozhye.

Reuters could not independently verify the reports. There was no immediate comment from Russia.

(Reporting by Olenna Harmash in Kiev and Lydia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Timothy Heritage

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