Russia launches dozens of drones into Ukraine in latest air raid

Al Jazeera:

Russia launched 36 drone attacks overnight on Ukraine, according to Kyiv’s air force, in Moscow’s latest air raid targeting the country.

Ukraine’s air force said in a statement on Tuesday that its defence systems had destroyed 27 of the drones.

The attacks using Iran-made Shahed drones targeted the Odesa, Mykolaiv and Kherson regions of Ukraine, the air force said on the Telegram messaging app.

Moscow launched a total of 36 Iranian-made drones from the Russia-annexed Crimean peninsula, it added.

The air force did not say which targets, if any, the nine other drones may have hit.

The governor of Mykolaiv, Vitaliy Kim, said on Telegram that one of the drones had been destroyed over his region.

There was no immediate comment from Russia.