2023-11-25 10:49:44
Kiev accused Moscow of having carried out, on the night of Friday November 24 to Saturday November 25, its largest Russian drone attack on the capital, since the start of the conflict in Ukraine on February 24, 2022. The Air Force Ukrainian government said on Saturday it had shot down 71 Shahed attack drones. “Most of them were destroyed in the kyiv region”, she announced on social networks. Five people, including an 11-year-old child, were injured during the offensive, local authorities in kyiv said. Follow our live stream.
Damage in the capital. The air alert in the capital lasted six hours and falling debris from drones caused fires and damaged buildings in the capital, assured Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko. “The enemy continues to sow terror”he lamented.
An attack at the time of the Holodomor commemoration. The attack comes as Ukraine commemorates the Holodomor, the famine caused in the country by the Soviets 90 years ago and which resulted in the deaths of several million people. “More than 70 Shahed (drones) during the night of the Holodomor commemoration (…). Russian leaders are proud of their ability to kill”reacted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on social networks.
“Impossible” to forgive the Holodomor. Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky judged that it was “impossible to forget, understand and above all forgive the horrible crimes of genocide that Ukrainians endured in the 20th century,” the head of state declared in a statement, on the day of commemoration of this famine of 1932-1933 known as Holodomor.
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