Ukraine:
Early on Saturday morning, many neighborhoods of Kyiv were targeted by the onslaught, and as day broke, fresh waves were added. The six-hour air raid warning was in effect.
71 of the 75 drones that were fired at Ukraine, according to Air Force Chief Mykola Oleschuk, had been shot down.
Source : NBC NEWS
He lauded the efficiency of “mobile fire” units, which are essentially quick pickup trucks with a flak cannon or machine gun installed on its flatbed. Oleschuk claims that they destroyed about forty percent of the drones.
Five individuals, including an 11-year-old girl, were hurt in the incident, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, who posted on the Telegram app. Additionally, structures in various parts of the city were damaged.
He claimed that pieces of a fallen drone had caused a fire in a kids’ daycare.
The incident occurred in the wee hours of the day when Ukrainians remember their greatest national catastrophe, the Holodomor famine of 1932–1933, during which several million people starved to death, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy reminded out.
He said on Telegram, “Wilful terror… The Russian leadership is proud that it can kill.”
The government of Ukraine has already compared the present Russian assault to the Holodomor.
The Soviet Union, which at the time governed Ukraine and attempted to suppress its aspirations for independence, is recognized by over 30 other nations as having committed genocide against the Ukrainian people during the Holodomor.
Moscow disputes that the fatalities were the result of a planned genocide and asserts that starvation affected both Russians and other ethnic groups.
Although the attack’s goal was not immediately apparent, Russia has threatened to launch another aerial assault in an attempt to damage Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, much as it did during the previous winter, as Ukraine has warned in recent weeks.
According to Ukraine’s energy ministry, the assault caused power outages in roughly 200 buildings in the city, including 77 residential ones.
“It seems like we heard the overture tonight. The preface to winter,” noted economist Serhiy Fursa, a well-known figure in Ukraine, said on Facebook.
