Russia and Ukraine trade drone strikes, disrupting air travel

Russia and Ukraine struck each different with hundreds of drones connected Sunday, throwing Russian aerial question successful disarray, days aft Moscow launched its largest aerial assault successful the much than 3-year-old war.

Photos circulating connected societal media showed crowds huddling astatine Russian airports including cardinal planetary hubs successful Moscow and St. Petersburg, arsenic hundreds of flights were delayed oregon canceled owed to Ukrainian drone strikes connected Saturday and overnight, according to Russia’s Transport Ministry.

The formation disruptions deed Moscow’s Sheremetyevo and St. Petersburg’s main Pulkovo airports. Other airports successful occidental and cardinal Russia besides faced disruptions.

Russian aerial defenses changeable down 120 Ukrainian drones during the nighttime attacks, and 39 much earlier 2 p.m. Moscow clip (11 GMT) connected Sunday, Russia’s Defense Ministry said. It did not clarify however galore had deed targets, oregon however galore had been launched successful total.

Early connected Sunday, Ukrainian drones injured 2 civilians successful Russia’s Belgorod portion adjacent the border, its Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said Sunday.

The Ukrainian attacks came conscionable days aft Russia pummelled Kyiv with waves of drones and missiles overnight into Friday, successful what Ukrainian officials called the largest specified onslaught since Moscow’s all-out invasion. The seven-hour onslaught killed astatine slightest 2 civilians, wounded dozens much and caused wide damage, Ukraine said, portion Moscow ramped up its push to seizure much of its neighbor’s land.

In total, Russia launched 550 drones and missiles crossed Ukraine that night, according to the country’s aerial force. The barrages person coincided with a concerted Russian effort to interruption done parts of the astir 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) beforehand line, wherever Ukrainian troops are nether terrible pressure.

Large-scale Russian drone strikes connected Sunday injured 3 civilians successful Kyiv and astatine slightest 2 successful Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis successful the northeast, officials said. A ample Russian onslaught involving Shahed drones besides targeted larboard infrastructure successful Mykolaiv successful cardinal Ukraine, according to section Gov. Vitaliy Kim. He reported warehouses and the port’s powerfulness grid were damaged but determination were nary casualties.

Hours later, Russia launched a glide weaponry and a drone astatine the front-line municipality of Kostyantynivka successful eastbound Ukraine, sidesplitting 4 civilians and injuring a fifth, the prosecutor’s bureau said. The drone struck a car successful which a joined mates were travelling, sidesplitting the 39-year-old pistillate and 40-year-old antheral connected the spot, it said.

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