Flights were suspended on Sunday at a Moscow Airport as Russia reported it shot down a drone outside its capital. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KYIV - Ukraine is seeing “significant results” from U.S. and German air defence systems, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday, despite waves of Russian air strikes that Kyiv says targeted civilians and residential buildings.
Zelensky said Ukraine had shot down a significant part of Russia’s attacks over the past week, which included 65 missiles of various kinds and 178 assault drones, including 87 Shaheds.“Unfortunately, there are casualties and wounded among the civilian population. Residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure suffered destruction,” the military said in a statement.
Russia’s defence ministry said earlier it had conducted successful strikes on Ukrainian air bases in the western Rivne and Khmelnytskyi regions and southern Zaporizhzhia region. It said its military launched a group strike using long-range and sea-based precision weapons and all the targets had been neutralized.The deputy governor of the Khmelnytskyi region, Serhiy Tiurin, said a military airfield in Starokostiantyniv was among the targets.
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