Russia's most recent nocturnal attack on Kiev results in four deaths as Ukraine shoots down 35 drones.


 In response to Russia's most recent nighttime attack, Ukraine air defenses shot down 35 drones built in Iran above Kiev.  According to officials, four civilians were murdered in the attacks carried out by Kremlin forces across Ukraine. 
On the eve of the customary Red Square remembrances commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War, Moscow imposed strict security. At the time the bombardments occurred. 
For the first time in years, military parades, a mainstay of Victory Day festivities across Russia, were postponed on May 9 in at least 21 Russian cities, according to Russian media. 
Regional officials mentioned "security concerns" or "the current situation" in general terms. 


Moscow and St. Petersburg, two of Russia's major cities, will host parades. 
Prior to Victory Day, however, drone use has been outlawed in both cities. 
Jet ski use in several areas of St. Petersburg, which is known as "northern Venice" because of its system of waterways and canals, has also been outlawed until May 10. 
In the Russian capital, drivers are not permitted to begin or end journeys in the city center due to a temporary ban on car-sharing services. 
Serhii Popko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, reported that falling drone debris injured five individuals in the Ukrainian capital. 
Over three hours of the night, air raid sirens blasted. 
According to a Telegram message by Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko, drone debris impacted a two-story apartment building in the city's western Svyatoshynskyi neighborhood and set an adjacent car on fire. 


Due to the economic penalties and restrictions placed on it as a result of its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia frequently used Iranian Shahed drones to increase its firepower. 
Three civilians were killed as a result of Russian bombardment on 127 targets in Ukraine's northern, southern, and eastern regions, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. 
According to the report, the Kremlin's soldiers bombarded Ukraine with surface-to-air missiles, surface-to-air missile launchers, bombers, mortars, drones, and tanks. 
According to the authorities, up to eight cruise missiles were fired from Russian long-range bombers against the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa. 
Three people were hurt, and one person died. 
According to the spokesman for the Ukrainian air force, Yuri Ihnat, several of the Soviet-era cruise missiles launched against the Odesa region either self-destructed or crashed into the water before striking their objectives. 
Additionally, a local official claimed that six Russian missiles also made nighttime strikes on the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine. 
According to the governor of the Donetsk region's Telegram account, Petro Kyrylenko, the missiles were fired at the city's industrial area but did not result in any injuries. 


Tight security was in place as Russian officials prepared to celebrate Victory Day, the country's most significant secular holiday, on Tuesday. 
Because of worries that the gatherings could become targets for Ukrainian aggression, many regions have decided to cancel their May 9 celebrations. 
In Ukraine, May 9 is often a holiday as well, but not this year due to the conflict. 
Additionally, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Monday that he has forwarded a draft Bill to the parliament proposing a Day of Europe on May 9 and a Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism on May 8—further separating Kyiv from Moscow. 
Zelensky compared the objectives of Russia in Ukraine to those of the Nazis. 
Sadly, evil has come back, Zelensky wrote on Telegram. 
"Even though there is a new attacker, the objective is still enslavement or annihilation. 
According to Ukraine's General Staff, residents of Tokmak, a town in the frontline southern Zaporizhzhia region, have started to flee toward the Black Sea coast under the control of Russian-installed authorities. 


Children's and educational professionals are also being evacuated to Berdyansk, a Russian-occupied seashore city some 100 kilometers to the southeast, according to the report. 
The study was released just a few days after Yevhen Balitsky, the partially occupied Zaporizhzhia region's Russian-appointed governor, ordered the evacuation of residents from 18 settlements, including Enerhodar, which is close to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, on Friday. 
The timing and direction of Ukraine's anticipated spring attack have been subject to increasing speculation for months. Some analysts have suggested that Kyiv may attempt to move south into Zaporizhzhia in an effort to divide Russian soldiers and cut off Moscow's land connection to occupied Crimea. 
Separately, according to founder of the Wagner Group Yevgeniy Prigozhin in an audio statement made available by his press office, the Russian military command has promised the private military firm more ammunition and equipment for its operation in the eastern city of Bakhmut. 
Wagner fighters, who have served as Russia's primary assault force in the beleaguered city for weeks, were threatened with expulsion by Prigozhin on Friday. 
He charged the military leadership of Russia with depriving Wagner of ammunition and causing it to suffer severe losses. 


The warning signaled a new escalation in Prigozhin's ongoing conflict with Russia's regular military over credit and military strategy during the conflict. 
According to Prigozhin's statement from Sunday, Russian defense officials have now promised to send the mercenaries "ammunition and equipment, as much as is needed to continue" and have granted Wagner full authority to make operational decisions in Bakhmut. 
On Monday, a military spokeswoman for Ukraine mocked Prigozhin's assertions that there was a shortage of ammunition, claiming that Wagner's difficulties in Bakhmut were really caused by its high kill rate and inability to resupply its ranks. 
"There is no lack of shells. Serhii Cherevaty, a spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces, declared on Ukrainian TV that this was categorically untrue. 
There are plenty of shells available to fire at our positions.

By Covenant 

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