Fighting escalates in the Ukrainian capital. kyiv was hit again on the night of Sunday May 28 to Monday May 29 by explosive drones and missiles, according to military authorities. The strikes come less than 24 hours after the city suffered its largest drone attack since the start of the war. “up to 40 cruise missiles” from planes over the Caspian Sea and “about 35 drones” from the North and South, Ukrainian Army Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny said on Telegram, who clarified that Ukraine intercepted 37 Russian cruise missiles and 29 combat drones.
“More than 40 air targets have been detected and destroyed by our air defense. The attacks on Kyiv have been repelled,” Kyiv’s Civil-Military Administration said on its Telegram channel. This attack, the fifteenth targeting the Ukrainian capital since the beginning of May, was carried out using cruise missiles launched by TU-95MS strategic bombers and explosive drones, she said.
A military site in western Ukraine, however, was hit by a Russian strike, the Khmelnytsky regional administration said in a rare public statement on the subject. “Russian troops struck several sites, including a military one, in the Khmelnytsky region,” the administration said on Telegram. She reported “fires in fuel depots” and “five aircraft taken out of service”, without giving further details.
According to her, “with these constant attacks, the enemy seeks to keep the civilian population in a state of deep psychological tension”. The roof of a building was damaged by falling debris, according to the same source, who also posted a photo of a hole in what appears to be a corrugated iron roof. “There are no dead or injured,” Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.
Overnight, two people were killed and three injured in what Ukrainian authorities called “the largest drone attack” on Kiev since the Russian invasion began in February 2022. According to the Ukrainian General Staff, 58 of the 59 Iranian-made Shahed drones launched on the capital that night were shot down.
