A massive and unprecedented drone attack targeted Kiev on the night of Sunday May 28, according to Ukrainian authorities. This is the fourteenth wave since the beginning of the month, while Ukrainian air defense claims to have shot down almost all the aircraft involved.
Russia carried out the “most important” drone attack on Kyiv overnight Saturday-Sunday since the start of the invasion, military authorities said.
Forty of the 54 drones launched targeted the capital, killing two people and wounding three.
“In total a record number of explosive drones launched were counted: 54!” Ukraine’s air force said in a Telegram post on Sunday.
A fire broke out in a warehouse zone sending flames shooting 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) into the sky and also killing one person, the administration said.
In the Solomianskii area, a 41-year-old man died and a 35-year-old woman was wounded and hospitalised, said Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko.
It was the 14th drone attack on the Ukraine capital by Russia this month, the authorities said.
The 54 attack drones were launched “from the regions of Briansk and Krasnodar” in Russia, said the air force, adding that 52 were destroyed.
Moscow was targeting “military installations and critical infrastructure in the centre of the country and in particular the Kyiv region”, it said.
Malo Pinatel, with AFP
