Overnight attacks on Kyiv killed at least one

Overnight on May 18, Russian armed forces attacked the Kyiv region with around 80 drones with at least one death and three violated Kyiv, according to the regional military administration.

“Unfortunately, a woman died of her injuries as a result of the enemy attack in the Obukhiv district. A 61-year-old man, a 59-year-old woman and a 4-year-old child were wounded. They were taken to the hospital. All necessary medical care is made available. The condition of the injured state is moderately,” Mykola Kalashhnyk, head of the Kyiv-Regional military. Explanation said.

Kalashhnyk said the attack caused a partial destruction of a private house, while the windows were damaged in a nearby multi -storey residential building.

The ongoing Russian drone attack overnight killed a woman in the capital region and injured at least three people, including a child, said the Ukrainian authorities on the early Sunday when Moscow escalated attacks on Friday after the RBC Ukraine.

“Unfortunately, a woman died of her injuries due to the enemy attack in the Obukhiv district,” wrote Mykola Kalashnik, governor of the Kyiv region, in Telegramm -Messaging app.

At 6:38 a.m., when an All -Clear was published by Kyiv Adminsistors, the region around the capital and the majority of the eastern half of Ukraine had been under air raids for over six hours. The air defense units were engaged several times to ward off attacks, the military said in the telegram.

Kyiv Post Journalists reported on night air defense activities, in particular anti -aircraft artillery (AAA) and explosions of drones in the air in the city and its suburbs, especially south of the city in the districts of Kriukivshchyna, Hatne and Obukhiv.

“It was a hard night. The Russians always used war and attacks to intimidate everyone in negotiations,” said Andriy Kovenko, head of the Ukraine Center for Disinformation, about the telegram on Sunday.

On Saturday, a Russian drone attack killed nine civilians after driving a shuttle bus in the Sumy region in the northeast of Ukraine, said Kyiv. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described the attack as “intentionally” and asked Moscow to stronger sanctions, which said that she had attacked a military facility, as Reuters reported.

After several Milblogger telegram channels, there were more than 80 drones over Ukraine from Russia at one point.

All injured in the Obukhiv district south of Kyiv City were hospitalized, including the four -year -old child, said Kalashnik. Several residential buildings were damaged in the district, he added.

Reuters witnesses in and around Kyiv also reported hearing sheets that sound like air defense units in the company.