The Ukrainian Air Force said on the Telegram application that early Sunday, air defense systems took part in repelling an air attack launched by Russian forces on Kiev.
Reuters witnesses heard explosions similar to the sound of air defense systems hitting targets.
No information has yet been received about the possible damage from the attack.
Sirens sounded in Kiev and a number of regions in central and eastern Ukraine after two o’clock in the morning local time, to warn of air strikes.
On Saturday morning, Ukrainian officials reported more civilian casualties from Russian bombing in the east and south of the country.
Three people were killed and 10 wounded on Friday on the front line in the eastern Donetsk region, where fierce battles are raging, the region’s governor, Pavlo Kirilenko, said on Saturday.
The Ukrainian General Staff stated that fierce clashes continued in three districts of Donetsk, where it said Russia had amassed its forces and tried to advance.
In the latest regular social media updates, the General Staff identified the outskirts of three cities, Bakhmut, Liman, and Marinka, as flashpoints on the front line, and said that Russia over the past days had launched failed offensive attempts there.
Five people, including a child, were injured on Friday and last night in the Kherson region in the south, said Oleksandr Prokudin, governor of the region.
According to Prokudin, the Russian forces fired 82 artillery shells, drones, mortars and missiles at the area, which was divided into two parts along 1,500 kilometers from the front line and is still suffering from floods caused by the collapse of a large dam on the Dnipro River earlier.
In the northeastern region of Kharkiv, Russian shelling the previous day injured a 57-year-old civilian, local governor Oleh Sinyhopov said the same morning.
The local military administration in the Sumy region, in the west of the country, reported that a boy was wounded in a raid across the Russian border.
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2023-07-02 00:52:27
