War in Ukraine | Russia launches largest drone attack against kyiv and regroups its forces in Bakhmut

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2023-05-28 20:22:35

Russia launched the largest drone attack on kyiv early this Sundaywhile on the eastern front he continued the regrouping of his troops after the beginning of the withdrawal of the mercenaries of the Wagner Group from the devastated city of Bakhmut.

“It was the drone attack more massive against the capital since the beginning of the large-scale invasion,” said the Military Administration of Kievwhich this Sunday celebrates City Day.

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As reported by the mayor of kyiv, Vitali Klitschko, the first explosions occurred around 01:00 local timebut the drones kept coming in waves from various directions throughout the early morning.

At least one person died as a result of the attacks on the capital.

The city of Zhitomir, in the north of the country, was also attacked with drones, where at least 26 residential buildings were damaged, but there were no casualties, reported the municipal authorities.

According to the command of the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia launched a total of 54 drones kamikaze Shahed-136/131, made in Iran, of which 52 were killed by anti-aircraft defenses.

Zelensky praises air defense

“You are our heroes!” wrote the President of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelenskiin a message to the anti-aircraft defense, firefighters and lifeguards, published on his Telegram channel.

Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat stressed that the country’s anti-aircraft defense is getting better every day, although he admitted that more means are needed to obtain one hundred percent results.

“This could be achieved with F-16 aircraft, which we are waiting for so much”he claimed.

For Moscow, the supply of fourth-generation multi-purpose aircraft to Ukraine by the West would be an “unacceptable escalation”, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in statements to Russian state television.

The head of Russian diplomacy added that in the West “there are reasonable people who understand this”, but stressed that “those who are in charge are Washington, London and their satellites within the European Union”, who seek to deal a strategic defeat to Russia, whose territory came under attack again today.

Russian territory also targeted

At least one person was killed and two others were injured. in the Russian region of Belgorod by artillery fire from neighboring Ukraine, informed the governor of that federated entity of Russia, Viacheslav Gladkov.

More of 200 artillery shellsincluding mortar mines, hit the territory of the Belgorod region in the last twenty-four hours, the governor denounced on his Telegram channel.

The fatality, a factory watchman, and the two wounded occurred in the city of Shebékino, in whose district dropped a total of 103 howitzers and mortar minesnoted Gladkov.

The number of impacts was even higher (115) in the Graivoron district, where, according to the regional authorities, three administrative buildings and five houses were damaged.

At the beginning of this week the Graivoron district was the scene of an armed raid by hundreds of “Ukrainian saboteurs”according to the Russian authorities, an action that was claimed by two groups of Russians fighting on the side of kyiv: the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom for Russia Legion.

According to the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the intensity of the fighting has decreased considerably in the surroundings of Bakhmut, after the start of the withdrawal of the units of the Wagner Group mercenary company and the transfer of their positions to Russian regular troops.

The head of the mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who had declared that the withdrawal to the rear camps would end on the 31stannounced this Sunday on Telegram that the transfer of the positions will take more days.

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