twenty Russian drones shot down in kyiv and in the Odessa region

2023-08-02 09:45:18

Cover image: A building damaged in kyiv by a drone, Wednesday August 2, 2023. Jae C. Hong / AP

Several Russian drones attacked kyiv early on Wednesday August 2, causing material damage but no casualtiesannounced the mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko. “As a result of the enemy attack on the capital and the fall of debris from drones, a non-residential building was damaged in the Solomiansky district. A tree caught fire in the Svyatochynsky district »Mr. Klitschko wrote on Telegram. “All targets – more than ten drones – were detected and destroyed in time”said on Telegram Serhi Popko, the head of the military administration.Another drone attack took place this Wednesday morning in the south of the Odessa region. Port infrastructure was damaged. “Fires broke out in port facilities and industrial infrastructure in the region, and an elevator was damaged”Regional Governor Oleh Kiper announced on Wednesday. “The enemy’s obvious target was the region’s port and industrial infrastructure. The air defense forces worked tirelessly for almost three hours”explained the army on Telegram.On Tuesday, August 1, Russia claimed to have foiled a wave of air and sea drone attacks on Moscow, Crimea and the Russian Black Sea Fleet.. A skyscraper in the capital’s financial district was hit for the second time in a matter of days. Russia has announced that it will step up its strikes against Ukrainian military infrastructure in response to drone attacks on its territory.Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport has been temporarily closed, announced Tuesday the public press agency TASS, which relayed information from the emergency services. It had also been briefly closed early Sunday during the previous drone attack reported by Moscow. Two more drones were destroyed by air defense over the territory of Odintsovo and Naro-Fominsk districts of Moscow region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.A Russian attack left three dead in Kherson on Monday morning. Governor of Kherson Oblast, Oleksandr Prokudin, confirmed this assessment adding that eighteen civilians were also injured, including volunteers and a 16-year-old girl.At least six people were killed and eighty others injured in the shelling of an apartment building on Monday morning in Kryvyi Rih, in central Ukraine. Two missiles hit a school building and partially destroyed the building. More than two hundred rescuers were busy in the rubble of the buildings to try to save the people trapped. “This terror will not frighten us nor break us”, and declared by Volodymyr Zelensky.

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