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Ukraine under Russian rocket, drone attacks for the second night, 12 killed | Russia-Ukraine was news

Ukraine under Russian rocket, drone attacks for the second night, 12 killed | Russia-Ukraine was news

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The Ukrainian Foreign Minister describes air strikes on the third day of the prisoner change as the largest in weeks.

Russia targeted Ukraine for a second night in a row with drones and rockets and killed at least 12 people, as the two countries pursue a large prisoner exchange.

The Ukraine Air Force said on Sunday that the Russian armed forces had attacked the Ukrainian regions with 298 drones and 69 rockets overnight, one of the largest air strikes in the war.

“Most of the regions of Ukraine were affected by the enemy attack. In 22 areas, enemy air strikes were recorded, and Downed Cruise rockets and attacks by UAVS (drones) fell in 15 locations,” said the air force in telegram.

The Ukraine security service reported that at least four people were killed and 16 were injured in the capital Kyiv.

The country's emergency service reported that three children aged eight, 12 and 17 were killed in the Zhytomyr region, while another person was killed in the southern city of Mycolaiv.

Sergiy Tyurin, the deputy head of the regional military administration, were killed four more in attacks in the Khmelnytskyi region, said Sergiy Tyurin, the deputy head of the regional military administration, in a post in telegram and added that the civil infrastructure had been destroyed.

The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said that after a “most massive Russian air raid for many weeks,” a “difficult Sunday morning in Ukraine after a sleepless night”.

The mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko reported in the telegram that “more than a dozen enemy drones” was around the capital in the airspace.

He reported on damage to a student dormitory in the Holosiivskyi district, a house in the Dniprovskyi district and a residential building in the district of Shevchenkivskyi.

In the meantime, the Department of Defense said that its armed forces have dropped 110 Ukrainian drones over the night.

Sergei Sobyanin, Mayor of Moscow, said 12 drones that fly to the Russian capital were intercepted.

At least four airports, including the main shoots -Hub -Sheremetyevo, were imposed, said the Russian civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsiya.

Big prisoner exchange

The two teams exchanged fire when they worked in February 2022 in their greatest prisoner exchange since the full invasion of Ukraine in Moscow.

Kyiv and Moscow agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war and civilian prisoners in the conversations in Istanbul, Turkiye at the beginning of this month – the first time when the two sides had met with face to talk to peace talks.

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Russia's Ministry of Defense said that each page brought home 307 other soldiers on Saturday, one day after each 390 soldiers and civilians.

Zelenskyy said on his official telegramm channel that further publications are expected on Sunday.

The Russian Ministry of Defense also said that the exchange will continue to be continued.

The new attacks followed a massive wave of attacks the previous day, with Ukraine reporting on Saturday that Russia had hit it with 250 drones and 14 ballistic rockets, while Russia was attacked by at least 100 Ukrainian drones.

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