Latest drone attack on Kyiv sends residents to air raid shelters
Al JazeeraUkraine’s military said 10 drones were shot down during an early morning attack on Friday, local media reported. Local media outlet The Kyiv Independent reported that air raid alerts were blaring in the Kyiv, Cherkasy and Kirovohrad regions due to possible Russian drone attacks. Ukraine's Operational Eastern Command reported that its anti-aircraft missile units, together with the air defense units of the land forces, destroyed nine Shahed-type drones and one Marlyn drone in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. — The Kyiv Independent December 30, 2022 Waves of Russian air strikes have hit the country’s energy infrastructure, leaving millions without power and heating in often freezing temperatures. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a video address on Thursday night, said Ukraine’s air commands the centre, south, east and west of the country repelled 54 Russian missiles and 11 drones on Thursday.