KYIV (AFP) – Ukraine said yesterday that its air defence systems had downed five missiles and 60 attack drones in a second night of aerial bombardments that killed four.
The air force said on social media yesterday a total of 91 projectiles were launched including 10 missiles and 81 attack drones.
“Unfortunately, despite the effective work of our air defence systems, four people were killed and 16 were wounded,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a post on social media.
He said rescue work was ongoing at the impact sites and vowed a response to the attacks. AFP journalists in the capital Kyiv heard air raid sirens echo over the city throughout the night as well as explosions, likely from air defence systems. Local authorities said yesterday that two people had been killed in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region and two in the central city of Kryvyi Rig after a missile struck
a hotel. The hotel strike comes just days after a team working for the Reuters news agency were hit by a missile in their hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, killing a safety advisor.
