Russia ramps up offensive, drone attacks kyiv and key Ukrainian oil infrastructure

Russia has attacked this morning kyiv and several points of the Ukrainian territory with 26 kamikaze drones of Iranian manufacture, of which the anti-aircraft defenses from Ukraine shot down 21. Several houses have suffered damage without, for the moment, victims have been notified.

Three of those drones not shot down have destroyed part of an oil infrastructure from the province of kirovograd, in the center of Ukraine. At least one of the oil deposits has been affected.

part of these Shahed drones 136 Iranian-made They were headed for the capital, kyiv, where around midnight the anti-aircraft sirens were activated. The Ukrainian Army managed to shoot down all the unmanned aircraft that entered its airspace.

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Another of the drones hit a government building in Dnipro, the administrative center of the Dnipropetrovsk region. In Mykolaiv one of the drones has hit a residential building without causing deaths or injuries, while in the region of Donetsk drones have damaged five high-rise buildings and a civilian infrastructure.

The drones were launched from Russia’s Briansk region in northeastern Ukraine and from the Azov Sea to the southeast.

Attacks on Russian soil

The Russian attack comes after several infrastructures and train tracks that Russia uses to supply fuel to its troops in Ukraine have been attacked in recent days.

In fact, this morning a fire broke out in a fuel tank in the town of Volná, in the Russian region of Krasnodar, a little more than 10 kilometers from the place where the bridge that connects Russia with the annexed peninsula of Crimea.

Ukraine has not officially claimed or denied that its forces or secret services are behind this and the other attacks, although Moscow has attributed responsibility to kyiv.

Three attacks in 6 days

This new attack, the third in less than a week, has so far left no fatalities. Last Friday at least 23 people lost their lives in a new wave of Russian attacks on cities in Dnipro and Uman, where several missiles hit dozens of residential buildings. kyiv was also attacked but without casualties or damage.

According to some analysts, Russia continues to launch these low-cost unmanned devices to force Ukraine to spend missiles and other much more expensive types of anti-aircraft ammunition.

In addition, the interceptions of these drones could also help Russia to locate the location of defensive systems used by Ukraine in full development of the Ukrainian counteroffensive, which is ready as confirmed by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Oleksi Reznikov.

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“The adversary’s tactics continue as usual and unchanged: at nightfall the terrorists launch a wave of devices from various directions,” explained the head of the Kiev Military Administration, Sergii Popko.

With the help of anti-aircraft defense systems received from its Western allies, Ukraine has now managed to shoot down most of the kamikaze drones with which Russia destroyed numerous Ukrainian energy infrastructures in the autumn and winter.