Russia Launches Extensive Drone and Air Attacks Across Multiple Ukrainian Cities

Kathmandu. Russia has launched extensive air and drone attacks on several cities across Ukraine. Russia stated that it carried out 948 drone attacks in the 24-hour period from Tuesday to Wednesday.

According to information provided by the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia began its attacks starting at 9 a.m. local time on Tuesday. At least three people were killed and dozens injured in the attacks.

Local officials reported that the 'Bernardine Monastery,' a 16th-century structure and a UNESCO heritage site in the city center of the western city of Lviv, was damaged.

A video posted by Lviv officials on Tuesday showed a fire on the roof of a residential building near the Bernardine Monastery.

Different footage posted on social media showed drones flying low near the city's sky and striking residential buildings.

Maksym Kozytskyi, the head of the Lviv region, stated that 32 people were injured in the Russian attack. A local official in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk reported that two people were killed and four injured, including a six-year-old child.

Several buildings, including a maternity hospital, were reported damaged in the regional capital.

The western Ukrainian city of Ternopil was also targeted in Tuesday's attack. Regional head Nabila Zabolotna informed that one person died and 13 were injured in Vinnytsia, a city in the central region of Ukraine.

It was reported that 11 regions of Ukraine were targeted in the overnight attacks, resulting in five deaths.

The Ukrainian Air Force stated that it succeeded in shooting down most of the Russian drones and missiles, but it also acknowledged that several areas across the country were directly affected.

According to Yuriy Ihnat, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force, a 'large number of drones' entered Ukrainian airspace from the northern region of the country on Tuesday night.

The war, which has been ongoing for over four years, has affected every corner of Ukraine, but the western part of the country is less affected and attacked compared to the eastern part, which is near the Russian border.