ALBAWABA - Ukrainian authorities announced that Moscow targeted Kyiv with the "most powerful" attack of missiles and drones since the spring, killing at least two people, while Russia claimed it destroyed four Ukrainian ships carrying up to 50 soldiers in the Black Sea.
The Kyiv City Military Administration wrote on Telegram that more than 20 missiles and drones were "destroyed by air defense forces" overnight, describing the aerial attack as "the most powerful" to hit the city since the spring.
The boats that Russia claimed it destroyed had been carrying "landing groups of Ukrainian special operations forces with a total number of up to 50 people," according to the Russian defense ministry.
According to the Kyiv municipal military administration, Russian forces launched groups of Iranian-made Shahed attack drones at the capital from several directions, as well as missiles from aircraft.
Earlier, Moscow's defense ministry said a Russian aircraft "destroyed four high-speed military boats" in the Black Sea around midnight, AFP reported.
Early Wednesday, the Russian defense ministry said it repelled a "seaborne drone attack near" Sevastopol Bay in Crimea, according to the state-run TASS news agency, citing the local Moscow-installed governor Mikhail Razvozhayev.
Ukraine carried out another wave of drone strikes on Russia overnight, targeting multiple sites ranging from an airport near the Estonian border to the Crimean peninsula on the Black Sea, according to Russian authorities.
According to the local governor, air defenses "repelled" a drone attack on an airport in Pskov, around 800 kilometers from Ukraine's border and close to the borders of EU member states Latvia and Estonia.
Regional governor Mikhail Vedernikov, who claimed to be at the scene of the attack, released a video of a big fire on Telegram, with explosions and sirens in the background.
