Russia hits Kyiv with its 11th airstrike this month

Russia launched another “massive drone attack” at Kyiv during the early hours of the morning, marking their eleventh airstrike this month, the city's military administration said Saturday (May 20).

Russia launched another “massive drone attack” at Kyiv during the early hours of the morning, marking their eleventh airstrike this month, the city's military administration said Saturday (May 20), CNN reports.

“The enemy is doing its utmost to strike key targets in Kyiv city and simultaneously deplete our air defense resources,” the local military said in a statement.

“In this way, Russians are aiming at putting the civilian population under deep psychological stress. That is why they attack Kyiv from the air almost daily,” the statement added.

The air raid alarm in the Ukrainian capital has only been silent for four days in May due to the regular attacks in the region.

Russia used 20 Iranian-made Shahed drones and one of its Merlin reconnaissance UAVs in the latest assault, according to the statement. The Ukrainian Air Force identified and destroyed all of them, the military claimed, and no one was hurt or killed.

The attack did not significantly damage any major infrastructure, the Ukrainian officials added added.

Bombardment earlier this week: Tuesday morning similarly saw an aerial attack on the city, which Russia claimed to have destroyed a US-made Patriot air defense system, despite the Ukrainian military saying all 18 Russian missiles launched were intercepted and destroyed.

Two components of a Patriot battery were damaged in the attack but the system “was never offline," according to a US official familiar with the matter.