Russia launches a barrage of drones and missiles at Kyiv, Ukraine’s army says : NPR

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched a barrage of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles at Kyiv, Ukraine’s air drive stated early Monday.

A number of sequence of explosions rocked the Ukrainian capital within the early hours of Monday, sending residents into bomb shelters.

Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko stated emergency providers have been referred to as to the Holosiivskyi and Solomianskyi districts of Kyiv. One individual was reportedly injured by falling particles in Shevchenkivskyi district, Klitschko stated.

“There will be an answer for everything. The enemy will feel it,” the pinnacle of the Presidential Workplace, Andrii Yermak, posted on his Telegram web page following the assault.

In accordance with the air drive, Russia fired a number of teams of cruise missiles accompanied by ballistic missile launches and some drones, focusing on Kyiv.

Serhii Popko, head of Kyiv’s metropolis army administration, stated over 10 cruise missiles, about 10 ballistic missiles and a drone fired on the Ukrainian capital and its suburbs have been destroyed by Ukraine’s air defenses.

An explosion additionally rang out in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest metropolis, in accordance with Ukrainian media. Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv area, confirmed an early morning strike on Kharkiv’s Industrialnyi district and stated it set a residential constructing and a number of other others on hearth.

The barrage comes a day after Russia’s army reported intercepting and destroying 158 Ukrainian drones focusing on a number of Russian areas in one of many greatest Ukrainian assaults of the struggle that has raged for about 2 1/2 years.

It additionally comes weeks after Ukranian forces’ incursion into Russia’s Kursk area, which Moscow’s forces have struggled to push again up to now and to which the Kremlin has vowed to reply.