The greatest attack by Russian drones since the large -scale war began in 2022 killed a woman in the kyiv region and wounded at least three people, the Ukrainian authorities said the early conversations on Sunday on Friday.
From 8 am, the local time, Russia had launched 273 drones, aimed at the kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions, said the Ukraine Air Force.
According to the data provided by the Air Force, this was Russia’s largest drone attack against Ukraine since the war. The registration was previously made by a strike of February 23, 2025, on the eve of the third anniversary of the large -scale invasion of Russia, when Moscow launched 267 drones.
The Russian flood killed a 28 -year -old woman in the capital’s region and wounded at least three people, including a 4 -year -old boy, the Ukrainian authorities said.
“Unfortunately, as a result of the enemy attack in the Obukhiv district, a woman died for her injury,” Mykola Kalashnik, governor of the kyiv region, published on Telegram, published on Telegram.
kyiv and the region around it, as well as the eastern part of Ukraine, were under air attack alert for nine hours in a row before the night was finally canceled around 9 am local time. The air defense units were committed several times to Trypes to repel the attacks, the military said on Telegram.
“It has been a difficult night. The Russians have always used war and attacks to intimidate everyone in negotiations,” Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Ukraine disinformation center of Ukraine, wrote on Telegram, wrote on Telegram about the attack of Suntay.
The air defense units destroyed 88 of the drones during the night. The attack also included 128 simulative drones that were lost on the road without hitting anything, said the Ukraine Air Force.
On Saturday, an attack with Russian unmanned aircraft killed nine civilians after reaching a transport bus in the Sumy region in the Northeast of Ukraine, kyiv said. Zensky described the “deliberate” attack and urged stronger sanctions to Moscow, which said he had attacked a military installation.
All the injured in the Obukhiv district, south of kyiv, were hospitalized, said Kalashnik. Several residential buildings were damaged in the area, he added.
In kyiv, the fragments of a destroyed drone damaged the roof of a non -residential building, said the city’s military administration. There were no injury reports, he added.
Reuters witnesses in Kyiv and their surroundings heard explosions that sounded as an operating air defense units. There were no immediate comments from Russia.
Both parties deny civilians attacked in the war, but thousands have been killed in the conflict, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.
The first direct conversations in three years between Russia and Ukraine on Friday failed to negotiate the Alto the Temporary Fire kyiv and its allies have been urging. However, 100 -minute conversations in Istanbul showed an agreement to exchange 1,000 war prisoners on each side.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said he would talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zensky on Monday.
