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Russia has once again launched a massive night-time aerial attack on Ukraine, with 140 drones, sources from Kiev said on Thursday morning.
The Ukrainian military stated that 85 of these drones were shot down and the location of 52 were lost and was attributed to electronic countermeasures.
Damage was reported in the Kharkiv and Odessa regions.
Oleh Kiper, the Regional Governor of the Southern Odessa Region, wrote on Telegram that a woman was injured in the attacks.
“Port infrastructure and an inoperative educational institution were additionally damaged,” he said.
The Russian Ministry of Defence reported on Thursday morning that overnight 83 Ukrainian drones were intercepted and destroyed over nine Russian regions.
The affected areas were the regions of Bryansk, Kursk, Lipetsk, Tver, Belgorod, Kaluga, Smolensk, Voronezh and Rostov.
Igor Artamonov, the governor of the Russian region of Lipetsk, wrote on his Telegram channel of a “massive drone attack’’.
A woman was injured by falling debris, and the power supply was temporarily, partially disrupted, he said.
In the Voronezh region, there was damage to a gas pipeline, which has since been repaired, and damage to residential buildings.
The military reports from both sides cannot be verified in detail, but they suggest the scale of the attacks.
Ukraine has been defending itself for nearly three years against a full-scale Russian invasion.
Both sides attacked each other almost every night with drones.
However, the consequences of the Ukrainian attacks are not comparable to the extent of the damage and casualties caused by Russia in its neighbouring country.
