KYIV: Ukrainian forces stated they thwarted a Russian missile assault on the capital Kyiv the place air-raid sirens sounded earlier than daybreak on Sunday (Aug 18).
“That is the third ballistic missile assault on the capital in August with a transparent interval of six days between every assault,” the Kyiv Metropolis Army Administration posted on Telegram after the early morning barrage.
Simultaneous to the missile assault, drones had been noticed heading to Kyiv.
“All enemy drones had been destroyed far exterior town,” it added.
No injury or casualties had been reported from the assault, which the administration stated had “probably used North Korean ballistic missiles of the KN-23 sort”.
The US and Seoul have accused North Korea of offering ammunition and missiles to Russia for its battle in Ukraine.
Kyiv has repeatedly referred to as for its allies within the West to offer extra air-defence methods.
Final weekend, a 35-year-old man and his four-year-old son had been killed in an in a single day Russian missile assault close to Kyiv. Three different individuals had been significantly injured.
Concern has deepened after Moscow vowed a “robust response” to the current Ukrainian advance into Russian territory.
Two-and-a-half years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv’s troops final week launched a serious counteroffensive into the Kursk area, sending greater than 120,000 individuals fleeing.
Ukraine claims to have seized greater than 1,100 sq km of Russian territory within the greatest assault by a international military on Russian soil since World Conflict II.
On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that his military was reinforcing its positions within the Russian area of Kursk with the operation “continuing precisely as we anticipated”.
On the opposite aspect of the frontline, Russian air defences destroyed 5 Ukrainian drones within the Belgorod, Kursk and Rostov areas on Saturday night time, the Russian Defence Ministry stated.
