Wildberries,<\/a> the country\u2019s biggest online retailer.<\/p>\nZelensky repeats his appeals for more air defense<\/b><\/p>\n
President Volodymyr Zelensky has pleaded for countries to send more Patriot interceptors for defense, but international stockpiles are low amid the Iran war and Kyiv\u2019s more than four-year fight against Russia\u2019s all-out invasion.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s overnight barrage also included cruise missiles and jet-powered drones that further strain air defenses, Ukraine\u2019s air force said.<\/p>\n
Explosions boomed across Kyiv in the dark, but the air force said hits were recorded at 28 locations across the country. Emergency services said 15 people were killed in the capital, with another death in the wider Kyiv region. About 40 people were wounded, Zelensky said, as air raid warnings lasted until after dawn.<\/p>\n
More than 38,000 people, including over 2,000 children, sheltered in Kyiv\u2019s subway stations overnight, the system\u2019s operator said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a massive attack,\u201d Zelensky said on social media, adding that Russia \u201chad been preparing [it] for a long time, combining different types of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones, aiming to cause as much damage as possible to civilian infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Russian Defense Ministry said it struck a Kyiv industrial site manufacturing components for Flamingo cruise missiles. Sites involved in the production and storage of drones, an ammunition depot and a logistics center were also hit, it said.<\/p>\n
Russia is able to produce more than 200 cruise and ballistic missiles per month, Ukraine\u2019s intelligence agency told news outlet Ukrainska Pravda in comments published Thursday. It has stockpiled more than 1,100 cruise missiles and about 130 Iskander-M ballistic missiles, as well as hundreds of missiles of other types, the agency was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n
It was not possible to independently verify the report, and Russian officials do not routinely answer questions about the country\u2019s arsenal.<\/p>\n
Ukraine says it struck more Russian oil facilities<\/b><\/p>\n
Russia and Ukraine have battered each other with drones and missiles as their armies struggle to gain the upper hand on the 780-mile front line.<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s General Staff said its forces struck an oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, in Russia\u2019s Tatarstan region, starting a fire, and the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal in Volna, in Russia\u2019s Krasnodar region, where there was also a blaze. Ukraine has hit both facilities in recent months as part of its campaign to disrupt Russia\u2019s vital oil industry.<\/p>\n
Tatarstan leader Rustam Minnikhanov confirmed there had been a \u201cmassive attack\u201d in the region, state news agency Tass reported, citing his press service. Many of the drones targeted Nizhnekamsk\u2019s Zakamsk economic area, disrupting production at industrial sites and damaging residential buildings, Tass quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n
The Russian Defense Ministry said air defenses shot down 726 drones overnight over a number of Russian regions, annexed Crimea and the Black and Azov seas, in one of Ukraine\u2019s biggest aerial attacks of the war.<\/p>\n
Ukraine\u2019s neighbors are on alert<\/b><\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s relentless onslaught has spooked other European countries, especially those bordering Ukraine, which fear spreading attacks from Moscow.<\/p>\n
Amid the attack on Kyiv, the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command activated its military aviation operations, ground-based air defense systems and radar reconnaissance. Polish and other NATO military aircraft were deployed to monitor its airspace, Polish news agency PAP reported.<\/p>\n
Romania\u2019s Defense Ministry said an unidentified drone crashed and burned in an uninhabited area near the Ukrainian border. Two Spanish F-18 jets, deployed on a policing mission in Romania, were scrambled overnight to monitor a group of \u201cair targets\u201d near the border, the ministry said.<\/p>\n
In addition, two Romanian F-16 fighter jets were deployed to destroy a naval drone seen near a major Black Sea gas project, Romania\u2019s acting Defense Minister Radu Miruta said.<\/p>\n
Moldova\u2019s Defense Ministry also said its airspace was breached by at least one drone.<\/p>\n
Russia \u201cis increasingly testing the resolve of NATO and its partners, violating the sovereignty of neighboring states and deliberately expanding the risks posed by its war far beyond Ukraine,\u201d Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on social media.<\/p>\n
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen saw a broad threat to the European Union. \u201cAn escalating campaign of threats is underway, unsettling our citizens and seeking to divide our Union,\u201d she said on X.<\/p>\n
Explosions shatter windows and screams fill the air<\/b><\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s overnight strikes hit 12 locations across Kyiv\u2019s Darnytskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Solomianskyi districts, damaging 30 apartment blocks, a school, a children\u2019s hospital and a kindergarten, Zelensky said.<\/p>\n
Larysa Bondaruk, 60, sat on the ground, holding her cat, Chanel, which had been rescued by firefighters. With tears in her eyes, she said her neighbor\u2019s grandson had been trapped by the rubble and died. Her apartment was badly damaged.<\/p>\n
\u201cA rocket hit the roof. It was incredibly loud. Immediately, debris and doors were blown out. There were columns of smoke, columns of fire, screams, crying and despair,\u201d she said. \u201cTwo people were killed in our building, but the rescuers responded quickly and professionally. I am grateful to them for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Solomianskyi district, the top two floors of a nine-story residential building were destroyed and fires broke out on other floors. People were also trapped in two residential buildings and a school shelter.<\/p>\n
Kullab writes for the Associated Press. AP reporters Vasilisa Stepanenko and Hanna Arhirova in Kyiv, Kirsten Grieshaber in Berlin and Stephen McGrath in Leamington Spa, England, contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia pounded the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and the surrounding region with scores of missiles and drones in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1162146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7654],"tags":[315527,2737,31239,2000,299,68878,8453,10546,7466,19968,6900,457,332,303474,8638,315528,657,70200],"class_list":["post-1162145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine","tag-central-ukraine","tag-city","tag-drone","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-force","tag-friday","tag-kyiv","tag-missile","tag-official","tag-other","tag-people","tag-russia","tag-russian-drone","tag-score","tag-shopping-mall","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian-drone-attack"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117136396366105081","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}