According to Kyiv, the Kremlin carried out a considerable attack on the night of November 25-26. Moscow targeted numerous infrastructures, including residential buildings, with a “record” number of 188 drones.
Ukraine announced on Tuesday, November 26 that it had been the target of a Russian attack during the night, on a record scale with 188 combat drones. According to Kyiv, they damaged residential buildings, as well as “essential infrastructure”. The Ukrainian Air Force revealed, in a statement published on Telegram, that “In several regions, houses and residential buildings were damaged.” She also revealed that four ballistic missiles had also been launched by Russia.
Agence France Presse journalists heard explosions in the Ukrainian capital during an air alert that lasted more than five hours. According to the Kyiv military administration, “more than 10 drones” Russians targeting the city were destroyed, without causing damage this time. Ukrainian Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko reported on Telegram that in addition to the explosions in Kyiv, others were heard in “Cherkassy, Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Chernivtsi and other regions of Ukraine”. He also points out that the electricity was cut off “Ternopil”in the west of the country, and do not yet know when it will be restored.
Air defense managed to shoot down 76 drones in 17 Ukrainian regions, the statement added. Five other drones flew towards Belarusian territory, a country allied with Moscow, located in the north of Ukraine, according to the same source.
In recent weeks, Ukraine and Russia have intensified their drone and missile attacks. On November 20, Ukraine fired long-range British Storm Shadow missiles into Russian territory for the first time. The day before, the country had struck the Russian border, at Bryansk, for the first time with American ATACMS missiles. The same week, Joe Biden changed US policy to allow Ukraine to use US-made weapons to strike Russia deeply. For its part, the Kremlin launched an experimental hypersonic missile on a Ukrainian city, also threatening to strike Europe and the United States.
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