DIRECT. War in Ukraine: new "massive" attack on Kiev, Moscow attacked by drones

2023-05-30T05:00:45.576Z

Highlights: Air alert sirens sounded in the night from Monday to Tuesday in Kiev, but also in the regions of Cherkasy, Kirovohrad. Two rounds of attacks were carried out on Kiev on Monday, one in broad daylight, creating panic among residents. Moscow was in turn attacked by drones, according to the mayor, who declares "minor" damage but no casualties. A hundred Russian soldiers were reportedly killed near Mariupol and 400 others were wounded.Major NATO fighter jet exercises have begun in Northern Europe.

Air alert sirens sounded in the night from Monday to Tuesday in Kiev, but also in the regions of Cherkasy (center), Kirovohrad

The essentials

This is the 461st day of the conflict.
Two rounds of attacks were carried out on Kiev on Monday, one in broad daylight, creating panic among residents. Eleven Russian missiles were shot down.
On the night of Monday to Tuesday, one person was killed and several others injured in a new drone attack.
A hundred Russian soldiers were reportedly killed near Mariupol and 400 others were wounded.
Ukraine has adopted a series of sanctions against Iran, aligning themselves with the West.
Major NATO fighter jet exercises have begun in Northern Europe.

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Alert

Drone attack on Moscow

After the drone attack in Kiev overnight, Ukraine responds: Moscow was in turn attacked by drones, according to the mayor, who declares "minor" damage but no casualties.

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One dead in a new night attack on Kiev

Kyiv, May 30, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

At least one person was killed and several others injured in the night from Monday to Tuesday in a new "massive attack" of Russian drones on Kiev.

Debris fell on a multi-storey building in the Holosiivsky district in the south of the capital. "One person died, an elderly lady was hospitalized, two victims were treated on the spot," the city's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said on Telegram.

REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

According to the city's civil and military administration, 20 people were evacuated from the affected building. "The top two floors are destroyed, there may be people under the rubble," she said.

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A hundred Russian soldiers were reportedly killed near Mariupol

A hundred Russian soldiers were reportedly killed and more than 400 wounded Sunday in a Storm Shadow missile strike on a former health facility in the village of Yurivka near Mariupol, which served as a temporary base for Moscow's troops. This is what the exiled adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petro Andryushchenko told the Kyiv Independent today.

Four buses carrying Russian military personnel had arrived at the temporary base the day before the strike, Petro Andryushchenko said, citing local supporters in the Russian-occupied city. A communications station and an electronic warfare system were reportedly destroyed in the attack.

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