KYIV – Russia launched in a single day air assaults on Ukraine’s south and east utilizing drones and probably ballistic missiles, Ukraine’s Air Force and officers mentioned early on Tuesday.
A hearth broke out at one of many “facilities” within the port of Mykolaiv late on Monday, town mayor mentioned. The port metropolis gives Ukraine with entry to the Black Sea.
“It’s quite serious,” Mayor Oleksandr Senkevich mentioned on the Telegram messaging app of the fireplace, including that extra element will come within the morning.
The southern port of Odesa and the Mykolaiv, Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk areas have been beneath risk of Russian drone assaults, the Air Force mentioned on the Telegram messaging app.
It added that Russia could also be utilizing ballistic weaponry to assault the areas of Poltava, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Kirovohrad.
Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the stories.
Air raid alerts blared in lots of Ukrainian areas for hours, earlier than being referred to as off at round 04:30 a.m. native time (0130 GMT).
Oleh Kiper, the top of the Odesa area’s army administration, mentioned air protection programs there have been engaged in repelling a number of waves of Russian drone assaults.
Serhiy Bratchuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Odesa army administration, mentioned on the Telegram messaging app that particulars of the assault will come later within the morning.
“Thank you all for your endurance,” he mentioned.
There was no fast remark from Russia on the assault.
Early on Monday, a blast knocked out the Crimean Bridge linking Russia to the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014, in what Moscow referred to as a strike by Ukrainian sea drones and vowed retaliation. —Reuters
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