Last night, Russian occupiers carried out another large-scale attack on Ukraine using various types of cruise missiles. Information about this attack is being clarified, the Ukrainian defense wrote in a telegram at around 06:30 on Saturday morning.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, they shot down 21 out of 34 Russian missiles.
The Ukrainian Air Force's Telegram account was filled with warnings of upcoming attacks in the early hours of Saturday.
In Kharkiv, a hospital was damaged and one person was injured in a missile attack.
– Residents of Kharkiv heard two strong explosions last night. One area of the city was attacked by the Russian army, local police wrote on Facebook.
They wrote that the building containing 60 patients had been damaged, and that the patients had been transferred to other buildings.
Reuters news agency published pictures from the hospital where people took refuge during the attack in the morning hours. Outside the hospital building there is a large hole.
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According to the Ukrainian Energy Minister, Russia attacked infrastructure in three different regions on Saturday night. According to Reuters, the equipment must be damaged.
As well as the Russian state news agency Rhea Reports on Russian attacks against Ukraine on Saturday night, and writes that there were explosions in the city of 2nd Stray in the Lviv region, as well as in the Zhytomir and Ternopil regions.
They also report Explosions in Dnepropetrovsk Eastern Ukraine.
An ongoing attack has also been reported in Kherson.
– Several explosions occurred in Kherson. The coastal region is under attack, the head of the military administration in Kherson, Roman Mrochko, wrote in a telegram.
He adds that Russia is attacking from the other side of the Dnipro River.
Poland: – A new wave of air strikes
The Polish Defense stated that it had implemented several measures as a result of the attacks early on Saturday morning.
– Due to the start of a new wave of long-range air strikes from Russia against facilities inside Ukraine, Polish aircraft and allied forces have been activated, as they write in X at 03:44.
They added that all necessary measures have been taken to ensure the safety of our atmosphere.
Shortly before 07:00 they wrote that the threat had decreased and that they had ended the operation.
Attack feared – hospitals evacuated
Authorities in Ukraine said in recent days that the Russians have intensified their attacks on the country's railways to prevent supplies and military movements before the Russian attack.
– These are normal steps that must be taken before the attack, says a source in the Ukrainian Security Service to Agence France-Presse, citing NTB.
On Friday, two hospitals in the capital, Kyiv, were ordered to be evacuated, NTB wrote.
– Local authorities said that this is linked to a video clip spreading rapidly on the Internet, where an attack on these health institutions is expected.
Among the hospitals that were evacuated is the Children's Hospital north of the city.
– We are doing everything we can to protect children, their parents, adult patients and staff from a possible attack on these medical facilities, Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram.
Ukrainian attack on oil refineries
There were also reports of a Ukrainian attack in Russia on Saturday night.
The governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Veniamin Kondratyev, wrote on Telegram that they had shot down more than ten Ukrainian drones, and that firefighting teams were working to put out the fires in several places.
– He writes that they tried to attack oil refineries and infrastructure.
No one was injured in the attack, according to the governor.
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