Air raid sirens in Kyiv as Russia launches fresh drone attacks

Ukrainian officers say at the very least one wounded in ‘waves of Russian drone assaults’ on Kyiv’s essential infrastructure.

Air raid sirens have blared throughout the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, as Russia saved pounding the town for a second evening in a row.

The drone assaults early on Monday focused essential infrastructure in Kyiv and the encircling area, in line with Ukrainian officers, and have wounded at the very least one particular person.

“It’s loud within the area and within the capital: evening drone assaults,” mentioned Oleksiy Kuleba, the governor of the Kyiv area.

“Russians launched a number of waves of [Iranian-made] Shahed drones. Concentrating on essential infrastructure services,” he wrote on the Telegram messaging utility.

“Our air defence forces are engaged on the targets,” he added. “The principle factor now could be to remain calm and keep in shelters till the alarm is off.”

The assaults adopted a barrage of Russian missiles and drones that hit Kyiv and different cities on New Yr’s Eve and early on New Yr’s Day. Not less than three folks have been killed within the assaults in Kyiv and different cities on Saturday, whereas one other particular person died in an assault within the southern area of Zaporizhia.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned at the very least one particular person was wounded in Monday’s assault after particles from a destroyed drone broken a constructing within the metropolis’s northeastern Desniansky district. The sufferer was a 19-year-old man, he mentioned on Telegram.

The district, situated on the left financial institution of the Dnieper River, is mainly a residential space and the capital’s most populous sector.

Al Jazeera was not in a position to independently confirm the knowledge.

By 3am native time on Monday (01:00 GMT), Ukraine’s air defence techniques destroyed 16 air objects above Kyiv, the town’s navy administration mentioned. Air raid sirens had been wailing by that point for greater than three hours.

Ukraine’s regional navy command within the nation’s east mentioned air defence techniques destroyed 9 Iranian-made Shahed drones over the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhia areas by the early hours of Monday.