Kiev claims massive overnight air attack launched by Russia
A Ukrainian military spokesman said that an unprecedented number of weapons was used in the barrage Ukrainian rescue workers respond to an emergency. Image shared on Friday by Interior Minister Igor Klimenko. © Telegram / Klymenko_MVS The Ukrainian Air Force, which is responsible for the nation’s air defenses, said it faced a massive Russian barrage overnight on Thursday night and Friday morning. Officials throughout the country have reported damage at multiple sites. The alleged air raid, which has yet to be confirmed by the Russian military, reportedly involved dozens of drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. Igor Ignat, spokesman for Kiev’s military, told the media that Earlier in the week, Kiev celebrated what it hailed as a major success in the conflict, after a Russian warship in the Crimean port city of Feodosia was damaged by air-launched cruise missiles. Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a metro station was damaged, as well as warehouses in two separate districts of the Ukrainian capital. His office said a business center was also set on fire. Read more by Ukrainian forces. Ignat, the military spokesman, claimed on national television that Russia used in its arsenal from kamikaze drones to hypersonic air-launched Kinzhal missiles. Moscow previously stated that Kiev tends to exaggerate the number of Kinzhal missiles used by Russia in the conflict in order to claim that it intercepted those projectiles. READ MORE: Western Europe ‘doesn’t know how to fight’ – Ukrainian FM The Ukrainian official estimated that Russia used 18 Tu-95 strategic bombers to fire air-launched missiles overnight.