WESTERN PERSPECTIVE
Russia attacks Kyiv with waves of drones, missiles
Waves of Russian drones and missiles struck districts across the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Tuesday, damaging an apartment building, sparking fires and injuring up to 16 people, city officials said.
Reuters witnesses said drones swarmed over the capital and they heard what appeared to be missiles overhead. An air raid alert remained in effect more than seven hours after it had been proclaimed.
Other parts of the country also came under attack, including areas outside the capital and the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, where the regional governor reported at least four strikes.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram that most of the 16 injured were in Solomianskyi district, near the city centre, where a drone damaged the top floor of an apartment building and other non-residential areas.
Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv's military administration, noted 12 strikes in five districts. Among the targets was a kindergarten in the city's eastern edge.
"The capital is coming under a combined attack," Tkachenko wrote. "The Russians are deploying missiles and strike drones. There are fires in different districts and emergency crews are at work."
Waves of drones had attacked Solomianskyi district, he said. "This is a very difficult night," he wrote, adding that there had been power cuts in some areas.
Both Ukraine and Russia have launched mass drone attacks in recent weeks as the two sides have held two sessions of direct talks on ending the more than three-year-old war. The talks have produced agreements on freeing prisoners of war and returning the bodies of fallen soldiers, but little more.
"More strikes by Russian drones on residential buildings in Kyiv," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, wrote on Telegram. "Russia is continuing its war on civilians."
Klitschko reported that a 62-year-old U.S. citizen had died in a dwelling opposite a site where medics were providing assistance. He gave no further details and it was not clear how the man had died.
In Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Russian air defence units had repelled an attack on the city by two Ukrainian drones. The city's airports were briefly closed.
RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE
Russian forces strike Ukrainian army training center, air defense radars over past day
Russian forces struck a Ukrainian military-industrial enterprise, an army training center and air defense radars over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Monday.
"Operational/tactical aircraft, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian groups of forces struck an enterprise of Ukraine’s military-industrial sector, a Ukrainian army training center, air defense radar stations, assembly and storage facilities and control posts of attack unmanned aerial vehicles, ammunition, explosives and materiel depots, and also temporary deployment sites of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 156 areas," the ministry said.
Kiev loses 1,320 troops in all frontline areas over past day - latest figures
The Ukrainian army lost roughly 1,320 troops in battles with Russian forces in all the frontline areas over the past 24 hours, according to the latest data on the special military operation in Ukraine released by Russia’s Defense Ministry.
The latest figures show that the Ukrainian army lost over 230 troops and eight armored combat vehicles in the responsibility area of Russia’s Battlegroup North, roughly 190 troops and a tank in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup West and more than 175 troops and two armored combat vehicles in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup South.
During the last 24-hour period, the Ukrainian army also lost roughly 490 troops and four armored combat vehicles in the responsibility area of Russia’s Battlegroup Center, over 175 troops and an armored combat vehicle in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup East and about 60 troops and two jamming stations in the responsibility area of the Battlegroup Dnepr, the latest figures suggest.
Reuters/Tass