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Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - KYIV— Russia launched almost 1,000 drones against Ukraine within 24 hours, making it one of Moscow’s largest aerial attacks since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.
More than 550 of those drones were launched at targets across the country in a rare and deadly daytime assault, the military said.
The attacks left at least 40 people in the country injured - including five children, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
At least two people in the western Ukrainian oblast of Ivano-Frankivsk have been killed, the region’s governor Svitlana Onyshchuk said. The victims included a National Guard soldier and his 15-year-old daughter, according to Ivano-Frankivsk mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv.
They were at a hospital maternity ward visiting the soldier’s wife who had given birth to a son just days prior.
Four others, including a 6-year-old, were injured. And in Vinnytsia, a 59-year-old man was killed while 11 others were injured, according to Mayor Serhiy Morgunov.
“This was one of the largest attacks over the course of the day,” with drones directed towards central and western Ukraine, Ukrainian air force spokesperson Yuriy Ignat said.
In Lviv, at least 22 people were wounded in the attack, the city’s mayor Andriy Sadoviy said.
The air force said at least 15 hits were identified and at least 541 drones were shot down or neutralized.
Residential buildings and city centers in the country were hit, including a maternity hospital in Ivano-Frankivsk that sustained damage, according to Ukrainian officials.
A church building in part of Lviv’s Bernadine Monastery Complex, a UNESCO World Heritage site, was also hit, according to Maksym Kozytskyi, head of Lviv region military administration.
“An architectural monument of national significance—the Bernardine Monastery Complex—has been damaged,”
Kozytskyi posted to Telegram, adding that experts have yet to determine the extent of the damage.
“It is located within the historic district of Lviv, a site listed on the International List of Cultural Heritage Sites under enhanced protection,” Kozytskyi said. “The fire has engulfed the buildings adjacent to the complex.”
The church is part of the UNESCO site “Lviv — the Ensemble of the Historic Center.”
Meanwhile in Russia, a 55-year-old man was killed and 13 others injured in Ukrainian drone attacks in the Kursk region, according to Acting Governor Alexander Khinshtein. — Agencies
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