DRONES TARGET THE CAPITAL
Ukraine’s air power mentioned Russia fired 67 drones on the nation in a single day, including that it shot down 58 of them.
AFP reporters in Kyiv heard loud explosions in a single day.
“There are virtually no nights when Russian assault drones don’t assault the territory of Ukraine. And as we speak was one other evening, huge drone assault,” the Kyiv metropolis administration mentioned in a social media publish on Saturday.
Particles from one downed drone landed close to the Ukrainian parliament within the centre of the town.
Within the east of the nation, three individuals have been killed in Russian shelling on Kostyantynivka – within the Donetsk area the place Russian troops are advancing – the native governor mentioned.
Russia’s army mentioned on Saturday it had seized the village of Kalynove, round 25km southeast of the important thing logistics hub of Pokrovsk, which Russia is looking for to seize.
Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned final week that Russia’s “major goal” within the battle was to seize your entire Donbas area – which consists of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk areas.
Moscow claimed to have annexed them, together with the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia areas in 2022, months after it launched its full-scale army offensive and regardless of not having full management over them.
The pinnacle of Ukraine’s neighbouring Dnipropretovsk area mentioned the variety of wounded in a missile assault on the town of Pavlograd a day earlier had elevated to 82, together with seven kids.
“Sixty individuals stay in hospital,” Governor Sergiy Lysak mentioned.
On the diplomatic entrance, Ukrainian President Volodymyr met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on the sidelines of an financial discussion board within the nation on Saturday.
Meloni reaffirmed her sturdy assist for Kyiv.
Zelenskyy was utilizing the temporary journey to Europe, which additionally included conferences with Germany’s Olaf Scholz and an handle to the Ramstein defence summit, to press allies for more weapons supplies.
