2024-08-12 22:59:07
Kyiv: Two people, including a four-year-old boy, were killed in drone and missile attacks by Russia on Ukraine’s Kiev overnight on Sunday, Ukraine reported. According to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, Russia fired several missiles at a residential area in Kiev’s Brovary district, damaging buildings there and the bodies of a 35-year-old man and his son were recovered from the rubble. Three other people in the district were injured in the Russian attack. These attacks have been carried out at a time when the Ukrainian army is taking action by unexpectedly entering Russian territory.
Second attack on Kyiv in August
Serhiy Popko, head of the Kiev City Military Administration, said that Russia has targeted the Ukrainian capital for the second time this month. Popko said that the ballistic missiles fired by Russia could not reach the capital, but they affected the suburbs, while drones aiming towards the capital were shot down.
At the same time, the Russian Defense Ministry said that 35 drones sent by Ukraine to Kursk, Voronezh, Belgorod, Bryansk and Oryol regions have been destroyed. Kursk’s acting governor Alexei Smirnov said on Telegram that 13 people were injured when a Ukrainian missile destroyed by the Russian air defense system fell on a residential building in Kursk. Ukraine has not commented on the attacks in Russian regions.
Ukrainian army entered Russia
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has admitted that his army is attacking inside Russia’s Kursk region. In his nightly television address on Saturday, Zelensky said that the Ukrainian army is carrying forward the war in the territory of the invaders. In fact, Zelensky’s statement reflects the first public acceptance of Ukraine’s cross-border infiltration into Russia’s Kursk Oblast, which allegedly began on August 6. The infiltration of the Ukrainian army has shocked Russia.
Zelensky thanked Ukraine’s defense forces and said he had discussed the operation in Russia with the country’s senior military commander, Oleksandr Sirsky. Earlier, Russia said 1,000 Ukrainian troops backed by tanks and armored vehicles entered the Kursk region on Tuesday morning.