Russia unleashes a massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine. At least 3 people are

killed

ATN gathered that Russia has unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage throughout

Ukraine on Monday, targeting energy infrastructure. At least three people were reported

killed, and power cuts were reported across the country. The barrage began around

midnight and continued beyond daybreak in what appeared to be Russia’s biggest attack

against Ukraine in weeks.

Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Monday that Russian forces fired drones,

cruise missiles and hypersonic ballistic Kinzhal missiles at 15 Ukrainian regions — more

than half the country this morning. According to Ukraine’s air force, there were multiple

groups of Russian drones moving toward eastern, northern, southern, and central regions

of Ukraine, followed by multiple cruise and ballistic missiles.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said explosions were heard in the capital, Kyiv. Power and water

supplies in the city have been disrupted by the attack. At least three people were killed —

one in the western city of Lutsk, one in the central Dni-pro-petro-vsk region and one in the

partially occupied Zaporizh-zhia region in the southeast, according to local officials.

Thirteen others were wounded — one in the Kyiv region that surrounds the Ukrainian

capital, five in Lutsk, three in the southern Mykolaiv region and four in the neighboring

Odesa region. Blackouts and damage to civilian infrastructure and residential buildings

were reported across the country, from the region of Sumy in the east, to the Mykolaiv and

Odesa regions in the south, to the region of Rivne in the west.

In Russia, in the meantime, officials reported a Ukrainian drone attack overnight and on

Monday morning. Four people were injured in Russia’s central region of Saratov, where

drones hit residential buildings in two cities. One drone crashed into a residential high-rise

in the city of Saratov, and another hit a residential building in the city of Engels, home to a

military airfield that had been attacked before, local officials said. Russia’s Defense Ministry

said that a total of 22 Ukrainian drones were intercepted overnight and in the morning over

eight Russian regions, including the Saratov and Yaroslavl regions in central Russia.