Russia responds to the ‘attack’ on the Kremlin and launches more than 20 drones and missiles on kyiv and its surroundings

Russia has attacked again this morning kyiv and its surroundings with missiles and 24 kamikaze drones Iranian-made as a response to Ukraine’s alleged attempt to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin. All the drones have been shot down and there are no victims or damage to infrastructure. The air raid lasted almost four hours.

“In the early morning of May 3-4, the aggressor again attacked Kiev with kamikaze drones and ballistic-type missiles. The Ukrainian air defense forces shot down all enemy targets,” confirmed the head of the Military Administration of the capital, Serhiy Popko.

“It is already the third attack on the capital in the first four days of May! Our city has not suffered such a dense intensity of attacks since the beginning of this year!the military officer in charge complained.

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He specified that on Wednesday night, “the aggressor again launched a comprehensive air attack against the capital. In kyiv, the air attack alert lasted more than three and a half hours.”

Russia used in its offensive Shahed-type artifacts and missiles, which could be ballistic, although this point “can only be confirmed after the fragments” that have remained in the city are examined, Popko insisted.

The fragments of the downed drones fell in some inhabited areas of the capital, but They did not cause personal injury or serious damage to buildings.

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Throughout the night, anti-aircraft alerts sounded, in addition to kyiv, in other regions of the country and in cities such as Odessa, on the shores of the Black Sea.

The attacks were launched, as on previous occasions, from Russia’s Briansk region, near Ukraine’s northern border, and from the south, from the eastern coast of the Azov Sea.

23 killed in Kherson

This new attack with drones and missiles comes just a few hours after Russia accused Ukraine of being behind an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin, with the aim of assassinating Putin.

kyiv has denied being the author of this attack and has warned that it is Moscow that “is preparing a large-scale terrorist attack.” “We have not attacked Putin”, has pointed out the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Over the past few days, Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukrainian soil. In fact, this Wednesday 23 civilians Ukrainians, including two children, were killed in Kherson in a wave of attacks. Russia attacked a train station, two supermarkets, a factory and a car depot.

To protect the population, Kherson has imposed a unprecedented curfew of 58 hours in a row which will begin this Friday at 8:00 p.m. and end on Monday at 6:00 a.m.

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

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Attacks on Russian refineries

In fact, Russia has denounced this Thursday a drone attack on an oil refinery in Ilski, in the Krasnodar region, in the south-west of the country, which has caused a large fire.

Hours later, the governor of the Rostov region, very close to the border with Ukraine, denounced another impact of an unmanned vehicle at a petroleum products plant, this time in Novoshakhtinsk.

These fires occur one day after another fire caused by the fall of a drone on a train that was transporting petroleum-derived materials as it passed through the town of VolnaIn the south.

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.