KYIV: Ukrainian forces mentioned they thwarted a Russian missile assault on the capital Kyiv the place air-raid sirens sounded earlier than daybreak on Sunday (Aug 18).
“That is the third ballistic missile assault on the capital in August with a transparent interval of six days between every assault,” the Kyiv Metropolis Army Administration posted on Telegram after the early morning barrage.
Simultaneous to the missile assault, drones have been noticed heading to Kyiv.
“All enemy drones have been destroyed far outdoors town,” it added.
No harm or casualties have been reported from the assault, which the administration mentioned had “almost certainly used North Korean ballistic missiles of the KN-23 kind”.
America and Seoul have accused North Korea of offering ammunition and missiles to Russia for its conflict in Ukraine.
Kyiv has repeatedly referred to as for its allies within the West to supply extra air-defence programs.
Final weekend, a 35-year-old man and his four-year-old son have been killed in an in a single day Russian missile assault close to Kyiv. Three different folks have been severely injured.
Concern has deepened after Moscow vowed a “robust response” to the recent Ukrainian advance into Russian territory.
Two-and-a-half years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv’s troops final week launched a serious counteroffensive into the Kursk area, sending greater than 120,000 folks fleeing.
Ukraine claims to have seized greater than 1,100 sq km of Russian territory within the largest assault by a overseas military on Russian soil since World Warfare II.
On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned that his military was reinforcing its positions within the Russian area of Kursk with the operation “continuing precisely as we anticipated”.
On the opposite facet of the frontline, Russian air defences destroyed 5 Ukrainian drones within the Belgorod, Kursk and Rostov areas on Saturday evening, the Russian Defence Ministry mentioned.
