The nighttime drone attack was part of a wider bombardment of Ukrainian regions that extended as far as the Lviv region in the west of the country
Ukrainian air defences downed 32 of 35 Shahed exploding drones launched by Russia early Tuesday, most of them in the Kyiv region, officials said, in a bombardment that exposed gaps in the country’s air protection after almost 16 months of war.
The Shahed drones made it all the way to Lviv because of the inability of air defence assets to cover such a broad area, Ukrainian air force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said. In the Lviv region, the Russian strike hit a critical infrastructure facility, starting a fire, according to Lviv Gov. Maksym Kozytskyi.’s air defences have been reinforced with sophisticated weapons from its Western allies, allowing it a higher success rate recently against incoming drones and missiles.
The counteroffensive has come up against heavily mined terrain and reinforced defensive fortifications, according to Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces.Russia has also mustered a large number of reserves, he said in a post accompanying a video of him visiting front-line positions with other senior officers.
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