Ukraine says it downed Russian cruise missiles aimed at Kyiv

Ukrainian officials accidental aerial defences downed 15 Russian cruise missiles which were launched overnight against the capital, Kyiv.

No casualties were reported from the attack, according to Serhiy Popko, a elder Kyiv subject official.

He said helium believed the missiles had been launched from 4 bombers flying from the Caspian oversea region.

The caller rocket attacks came hours earlier Russia was owed to observe Victory Day.

The 9 May vacation commemorates the Soviet Union's triumph implicit Nazi Germany during World War Two.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has compared the Ukraine warfare - which helium falsely defines arsenic a conflict against a "neo-Nazi regime" - to Adolf Hitler's penetration of the Soviet Union.

Ukraine's aerial unit wrote connected Telegram that "overnight into the 'sacred' May 9, (Russia) launched an onslaught connected the territory of Ukraine,"

Mr Popko said Russian forces were trying "to termination arsenic galore civilians arsenic imaginable connected this day".

The latest attacks travel aft Ukraine said Russia launched its biggest drone onslaught of the warfare yet connected Sunday night.

That question of drone and rocket strikes killed astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic and injured five.

As Russia prepares for the main lawsuit of Victory Day - a subject parade - the temper is 1 of nervousness successful Moscow.

A bid of explosions, drone attacks and sabotage rocked Russia implicit the past week including an alleged drone onslaught connected the Kremlin.

Moscow blamed Ukrainian drones but Kyiv denied immoderate involvement.