No less than 12 individuals, together with an Indian, have been killed after Russia launched a large aerial assault throughout Ukraine in a single day, Ukrainian authorities mentioned on Tuesday. Greater than a dozen individuals have been additionally wounded, together with three kids.The assault, which started at round 6pm on Monday, concerned ballistic, cruise and anti-radar missiles, together with 218 drones and decoys, based on Ukraine’s air pressure. Round a 3rd of the drones have been reportedly jet-powered.The Kyiv and Odesa areas have been the principle targets of the assault, which marked the sixth consecutive day of Russian assaults on the Ukrainian capital.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned residential buildings and civilian infrastructure have been broken in a number of areas. “Total, 12 individuals have been killed, amongst them an Indian citizen, and dozens extra have been injured within the assault.”Zelenskyy mentioned seven individuals have been killed in a strike on a railway depot in Kyiv, whereas authorities reported one other demise within the metropolis’s Holosiivskyi district after a non-residential constructing was hit and caught hearth. A drone additionally struck a residential constructing within the Solomianskyi district, the place emergency staff rescued a person and freed a lady trapped beneath rubble.Within the wider Kyiv area, three individuals have been killed and 12 wounded. In Boryspil, a number of buildings and automobiles have been broken, whereas emergency crews evacuated 48 individuals and rescued two individuals from beneath the rubble.Odesa additionally got here beneath heavy assault, with residential buildings and civilian infrastructure broken. A stitching manufacturing unit caught hearth, whereas Russian forces additionally struck the Orlivka worldwide ferry crossing on the border with Romania.Ukraine’s air pressure mentioned its forces destroyed or suppressed 199 aerial targets, together with 5 ballistic missiles and 187 drones. Missile and drone strikes have been recorded at 28 areas, whereas particles from intercepted targets fell at one other 10 websites.Zelenskyy mentioned the assaults confirmed the necessity for stronger air defences, including: “Russia at all times plans its strikes particularly to trigger as a lot destruction to individuals’s lives as potential, and it succeeds solely when air protection capabilities are inadequate.”
