Ukraine: Explosions in Kyiv

In the Ukrainian capital Kyiv According to residents, it was early Sunday morning Explosions heard been. Eyewitnesses reported to the Reuters news agency that smoke was rising from residential buildings. An air strike warning was in effect for Kiev, its surroundings and most of eastern Ukraine for most of the night, the Ukrainian military said on social media.

According to the Ukrainian army chief Oleksandr Syrsky Ukraine is currently resisting one of the most violent waves of Russian attacks since 2022. “Ukraine’s armed forces are stopping one of the strongest Russian offensives from launching a full-scale invasion,” Syrsky wrote on Telegram.

According to information from Moscow, the Russian military destroyed 19 Ukrainian drones during the night. The Ministry of Defense announced on the short message service Telegram that 16 drones were shot down over the southern border region of Rostov. The remaining drones were intercepted over the Belgorod and Bryansk regions, which also border Ukraine.

The Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj once again criticized the circumvention of Western sanctions against Russia. In October alone, Russia used more than 2,000 drones against Ukraine, Zelensky said in his evening video speech. For such a high number of flying objects, more than 170,000 individual components are necessary, which should never have reached Russia. “They come from companies in China, Europe and America, all small but constant contributions to Russian terror,” he said.

“This ongoing supply chain once again underscores the urgent need for the world to tighten export controls on specific components and resources,” Zelensky emphasized. The sanctions would have to be tightened and more effective. Circumventing them is a crime against people and the world, because in this way Russia is able to strengthen the governments in Iran and North Korea.