DRONE SWARMS AIMED AT KYIV
Nine other regions had been targeted in overnight strikes by Russia, Zelenskyy added, saying Kyiv in particular was under “virtually non-stop attack” from high-speed drones.
Russia has escalated its air war on Ukraine with increasing numbers of elusive ballistic missiles and new high-speed drones, which Kyiv lacks the air defences to shoot down.
On Saturday, sirens blared throughout the morning for a third straight day as Ukraine’s air force warned of new waves of drones approaching the capital.
The sound of air defences could be heard booming across the sky.
Kyiv region governor Tymur Tkachenko said a 14-year-old girl was killed in a morning drone strike on the Boryspil district. In Kyiv, a 2-year-old girl was killed by a downed drone, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Saturday.
Strikes in and around Kyiv on Thursday and Friday had damaged warehouses and homes, part of what some Ukrainian officials said was a campaign aimed at “paralysing” the city of several million.
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