Source: Shangguan News
Russia fired hundreds of drones and missiles on Kiev and other parts of Ukraine in the early morning of the 28th, killing at least four people and wounding dozens, the attack was one of the most lasting Russian attacks on Kiev since the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis, the Ukrainian side said lasting more than 12 hours.
The Ukrainian military said Russia fired 595 drones and 48 missiles overnight, while the Ukrainian air defense system shot down 568 drones and 43 missiles.
Ukrainian President Zelensky said in a statement on social media on Monday that at least 40 people were injured and four killed in the attacks, with the main airstrikes aimed at Kiev and the state of Kiev, as well as in Zaporozhye, Sumei and Odessa.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on the 28th that the Russian military used high-precision long-range air-based and sea-based weapons and attack drones to carry out massive strikes on Ukrainian military industrial enterprises and military airport infrastructure.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian troops also hit Ukrainian drones and long-range drone assembly and storage sites, as well as temporary deployments of Ukrainian armed forces and foreign mercenaries in 147 areas.
The analysis pointed out that an attack of this scale puts Ukraine's limited air defense system under great pressure. Zelenskyy said last Saturday that additional Patriot missile systems from Israel have been deployed, and he expects to receive two more Patriot systems this fall.
Zelensky once again called on the international community to take decisive action to cut off Russia’s energy revenue. Ukraine has so far failed to convince U.S. President Trump to impose punitive sanctions on Moscow. But U.S. Vice President Wences on 28 confirmed that the U.S. is considering Ukraine’s request to acquire long-range “strike axis” missiles, and Trump will make a “final decision” whether or not to approve arms sales.
Russian military analyst Yuri Knutov said it was not ruled out that the airstrike was just the beginning of a daily strike against Ukraine, which was targeted by Ukrainian military threats to launch strikes against Moscow and create a "electricity shutdown" in major cities.
Knutov said that this "preventive" strike was carried out against the background of Ukraine's strengthened deployment of drones-Ukraine signed agreements with the United States, the United Kingdom, and Denmark to jointly build factories, and signed agreements with several countries. Agreement to jointly produce high-precision weapons and drones. "Ukraine's expectation is to start supplying drones and missiles on a large scale in half a year or even a few months to launch strikes against government agencies in Moscow and the capital."
Other observers noted that the strike was also at the time of the European Union, NATO, Ukraine agreed to build a "drone wall" at the border between the EU and Ukraine, the confrontation around the drone incident, raising external concerns about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict further spread. in addition to the approaching winter, the recent Russian-Ukrainian attacks on energy facilities are also escalating, which determine Ukraine's situation in the short term difficult to turn from the "conflict" to the "mediation" track.