Russia renews drone and missile attacks on Ukraine

Russian drones targeted the superior Kyiv and different cities successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday, hitting captious infrastructure successful Lviv successful the west, Ukrainian officials person said.

Ukraine's aerial unit says 35 drones were launched and each but 3 changeable down.

The onslaught connected Lviv triggered a fire, but no-one was injured, the section authorities say.

The raid connected Kyiv and a rocket onslaught connected Zaporizhzhia successful the southbound were some described arsenic massive.

More than 20 drones were fired astatine Kyiv successful waves from Russian territory to the northbound and from the seashore of the interior Sea of Azov successful the south-east, according to the aerial force. It was the archetypal specified incidental successful 18 days.

In Lviv, the caput of the determination authority, Maksym Kozytskyi, said a critically important people had been deed by Iranian-made Shaheed drones and occurrence had breached out.

"Today, astir 5 o'clock successful the greeting [02:00 GMT] during an aerial raid alert we had 3 hits," helium said. "Fortunately, determination are nary casualties."

In confederate Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia was attacked by a fig of Iskander-M ballistic missiles, section officials said, adding that cipher had been hurt.

Three drones were besides changeable down implicit the confederate portion of Mykolaiv, the politician said.

The Zaporizhzhia portion is the absorption of overmuch of the Ukrainian military's existent violative to recapture territory seized by Russia astatine the commencement of its full-scale penetration successful February 2022.

In his nightly TV address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that successful immoderate areas the subject was moving guardant portion successful others they were holding positions against Russian attack.

Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said hours earlier that Ukrainian forces had recaptured the colony of Piatykhatky arsenic they effort to interruption done Russia's beforehand enactment successful the confederate region. She said it was the eighth Ukrainian colony to beryllium recaptured successful the past week. There has been nary autarkic confirmation of the latest developments.

Ms Maliar said Ukraine's propulsion had precocious immoderate 7km (4.3 miles) successful 2 directions successful Zaporizhzhia, towards the occupied confederate cities of Melitopol and Berdyansk.

The exiled politician of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, said residents had seen Russian forces permission the Kherson portion further westbound for the beforehand enactment successful Zaporizhzhia.

Melitopol and Berdyansk prevarication connected a coastal way from Russia to Crimea seen arsenic captious to the Russian subject due to the fact that the span implicit the Kerch Strait from Russia to occupied Crimea is mostly avoided by proviso lorries. A Russian MP said earlier this period that the span was not considered unafraid but the "land corridor" was operating normally.

Western quality officials accidental Russian troops person moved distant from the beforehand enactment successful Kherson since areas astir the Dnipro stream were flooded aft the Kakhovka dam was destroyed connected 6 June.