Russian Forces Launch Overnight Drone Attacks on Kyiv

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The assault was the first pre-dawn drone barrage to target the Ukrainian capital in almost two weeks, officials said.

Sweeping up debris after an apartment building was hit by a Russian drone that was shot down in May by Ukrainian defenses in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. | Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times
Russian forces launched a wave of drone attacks on Ukraine’s capital before dawn on Sunday for the first time in nearly two weeks, according to Ukrainian officials.

Air-raid alarms sounded around 2:30 a.m. in the capital, Kyiv. Explosions were later reported.

Serhiy Popko, the head of the city’s military administration, said that air defenses had destroyed all of the drones in Kyiv’s airspace. It was the first time in 12 days that Russian forces had used Iranian-made attack drones to target the capital, he said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app.

No one was killed, but debris from downed drones damaged three homes in the Kyiv region, according to the local military administration in a statement on Telegram. A man suffered a leg injury in one of those homes, it added. » | Cassandra Vinograd, Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine | Sunday, July 2, 2023