Russia launches combined drone and missile barrage on Kyiv

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13 November 2024 at 7:55 am·1-min read

Rescue workers put out a fire following a Russian strike in Brovary, outside Kyiv, in this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on November 13, 2024.

Russia stepped up its attacks on the Ukrainian capital early on Wednesday with its first combined drone and missile attack since the summer. Officials said one man was wounded by falling debris from a downed drone in a suburb of Kyiv.

Russia escalated its attacks on Kyiv early Wednesday, launching waves of drones and missiles in its first combined aerial assault on the capital in more than 70 days, authorities said.

The broadside came as Washington and Seoul echoed warnings from Ukraine that North Korean troops had begun "engaging in combat operations" alongside Russian forces on the border between the warring countries.

A security source in Kyiv meanwhile told AFP that Ukraine was behind the assassination of a high-ranking Russian naval officer in a car bombing on the annexed Crimean peninsula.

Ukraine's air force said its units had downed four missiles and 37 drones launched by Russia over eight regions of Ukraine overnight and into Wednesday morning.

"It is important that our forces have the means to defend the country from Russian terror," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in response to the attack.

Ukraine has for months been appealing to its Western allies to provide more air-defence systems to fend off Russian attacks on cities and critical infrastructure.

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