By Lucy Davalou &euro news
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Russian airstrikes in Ukraine have killed at least nine people and injured 53 others in the past 24 hours, regional authorities said.
Russia’s offensive in Ukraine lasted from Friday to Saturday, launching three Kh-47M2 “Kinzhal” air-launched ballistic missiles, as well as 135 different attack drones, including Shahed, which was launched from the regions of Oryol, Primorsko-Akhatarsk, Kursk, Mirerovo, Bryansk and Chauda Hvardiske in the occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
Two Kh-47M2 Kinzhal ballistic missiles and 91 enemy Shahed drones were shot down or intercepted, the Ukrainian Armed Forces said.
Thirteen locations were attacked by drones and one missile, and debris from the destroyed drone fell from the sky and hit four areas.
Friday’s Russian attack on Ukraine’s capital Kiev killed seven people, injured 36 and caused widespread damage in nine neighborhoods, Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said.
Meanwhile, 34 communities in the southern region of Kherson were attacked, and Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported one death in the frontline city of Kherson, which is divided by the Dnipro River.
According to the governor of Donetsk region, one person was injured in the city of Kramatorsk. Kramatorsk is known as a place where families wait to be reunited with soldiers returning from the front.
Nighttime attacks were also witnessed in Sumy and Kharkiv regions, and a 65-year-old man was reportedly killed in the Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region.
Meanwhile, a major oil terminal in the Russian port city of Novorossiysk in the Krasnodar region, which accounts for about 2% of global exports, suspended operations following Friday’s attack on Ukraine, according to multiple Russian officials and Telegraph news agencies.