CNN —Since September 1, the Ukrainian capital Kyiv has been spared from Russian drone attacks on just one night – October 14.
On Saturday night, Ukrainian air defenses detected a record 145 incoming Shahed drones.
“We have been doing this for over two years,” he said, but the intensity of drone attacks had peaked over the past two to three months.
The drone attacks seem calculated to instil fear rather than cause mass casualties, but several people have been killed in recent weeks.
Russian forces already occupy almost all of Luhansk and substantial parts of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson – altogether some 20% of Ukraine.
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