Russia-Ukraine war – live: Kyiv says Putin targeted energy facilities in overnight drone attack
Russian drones attacked energy facilities in overnight raids on Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk and Kirovohrad regions, Ukraine’s Operational Command “South” has said.
It said on Tuesday that a target in the latter region had been hit.
Separately, Ukraine’s general staff said air defences had downed nine out of 10 drones that attacked the country overnight.
It comes after Ukraine fought off 36 Russian tanks in the western Donetsk region, according to a think tank, in what is believed to have been one of Moscow’s biggest armoured vehicle assaults of the war.
Citing a Ukrainian serviceman, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said Kyiv’s forces repelled 36 tanks and 12 BMP infantry fighting vehicles as part of a Russian battalion-sized mechanised assault near the key town of Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast on Saturday.
The ISW added that geolocated imagery shows a large number of destroyed and damaged Russian armored vehicles and tanks, with the Ukrainian serviceman reporting that Moscow lost at least 20 in the failed attack.
Meanwhile, Kyiv’s military administration reported on Monday that five hypersonic Zircon missiles are among the 180 weapons Russia has fired at the Ukrainian capital city since the start of this year.
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