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The ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine has taken the most dreadful and destructive form so far. Late on Saturday night, the Russian army launched an all-round and extremely powerful air attack on Ukraine’s capital Kiev, shaking the entire city. At least one civilian died tragically in this attack of several deadly ballistic missiles and modern weapons fired simultaneously by Russia, while eight others were seriously injured. According to local administrative officials, the missile attack, which started after midnight, continued for several hours, engulfing five major districts of the capital in flames and causing heavy damage to many residential and industrial buildings. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has strongly condemned this attack, calling it the biggest and most brutal attack ever.
Capital Kiev echoed with explosions at midnight: severe destruction and coup-like situation in 5 districts
At around 1:30 am local time on Saturday night, when the entire city was sleeping, Russian missiles started wreaking havoc from the sky. Even before the defense system of the capital Kiev was activated, the sounds of massive explosions kept echoing repeatedly in five big districts of the city. According to the Ukrainian Emergency Services, the heavy bombing caused massive fires in residential areas, corporate offices, industrial establishments, a student hostel and dozens of vehicles. In the Sviatoshinsky district, rescue teams broke the windows of a burning private house and rescued four people, while in the Shevchenkivsky district dozens of people were rescued from a burning three-story building. Firefighters continued to fight the blaze throughout the morning in Solomiansky, Desnyansky and Dnipro districts, where a man’s body was recovered from the debris of a non-residential building.
Ukraine is facing severe shortage of Patriot missiles: Zelensky’s eyes fixed on Trump’s new announcement
This worst air attack on Ukraine has happened at a critical time when the Kiev administration is facing a serious shortage of its air defense system. According to military experts, American Patriot Missiles are considered to be the most accurate and effective system to shoot down Russian ballistic missiles in the air, but at present Ukraine’s stock of them is almost on the verge of exhaustion. In recent weeks, Russia has taken advantage of this weakness of Ukraine and increased the pace of attacks manifold. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has given a big statement saying that he is fully ready to license domestic production of Patriot interceptor missiles to Ukraine, which can increase Kiev’s military strength in the future. However, the exact timeline for implementing this decision has not yet been clarified by the White House.
Russia’s big counterattack: shot down 140 Ukrainian suicide drones overnight
The Kremlin and the Russian Defense Ministry also issued an official statement on Sunday morning claiming to have foiled major drone attacks carried out by Ukraine. According to the Russian Army, their state-of-the-art air defense units shot down a total of 140 Ukrainian Kamikaze Drones in the air between 8 pm on Saturday evening and 8 am on Sunday morning. Russia has claimed that these drones have been destroyed mainly over Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Rostov, Moscow Region, Krasnodar Krai as well as over the strategically sensitive Crimea, Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. It is clear from this retaliation that the tension between the two countries has now completely gone out of control and President Zelensky has made a global appeal to the international community to increase economic and military pressure on Russia.