Russia launched an exceptionally intense air assault on Kyiv within the early hours of Tuesday, utilizing drones, cruise and doubtless ballistic missiles, metropolis officers mentioned, because the Ukrainian capital suffered its eighth air raid this month.

“It was exceptional in its density – the maximum number of attack missiles in the shortest period of time,” Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s metropolis army administration, mentioned in feedback posted on the Telegram messaging app.

“According to preliminary information, the vast majority of enemy targets in the airspace of Kyiv were detected and destroyed!”

It was not instantly recognized what number of objects have been shot down over town and if any of them managed to hit their goal.

After a weeks-long hiatus, Russia in late April resumed its tactic of long-range missile strikes and has launched a flurry of assaults in latest days, typically concentrating on Kyiv. Ukraine has been in a position to repel overwhelming majority of the assaults thus far.

On Tuesday, falling particles was reported in Kyiv’s Obolonskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Solomyanskyi and Darnytskyi districts, officers mentioned.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned falling particles set a number of automobiles on hearth and broken a constructing within the Solomyanskyi district within the capital’s west. Three individuals have been injured.

Klitschko mentioned that south of Boryspil, air defence programs have been repelling a drone assault. Boryspil, a metropolis simply southeast of Kyiv, is residence to the capital’s fundamental passenger airport, which is now closed.

The harm in different districts was not vital and there was no speedy data on potential casualties there, the army administration mentioned.

Air raid sirens blared throughout practically all of Ukraine within the early hours of Tuesday, and have been heard over Kyiv and its area for greater than three hours.