Russia launched a missile attack on Kiev on Wednesday morning, the country’s air defense system shot down all the projectiles before reaching their targets, the capital’s military administration said via the Telegram messaging app. Witnesses cited by Reuters heard several explosions that sounded like air defense systems had been deployed around 05:50 a.m. local time, when an airstrike warning was issued across Ukraine and canceled an hour later. According to Popko, Russia used several types of missiles.

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07:48Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defense systems destroyed a drone launched by Ukraine shortly before midnight on Tuesday over the Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, Reuters reported.

The governor of the Bryansk region, Oleksandr Bogomaz, told Telegram that there was no destruction and no casualties.

07:45 As a result of an attack by Russian drones on the Danube port of Izmail in the Odesa region on Wednesday morning, one person was killed and infrastructure was damaged, the governor of the region said on the Telegram messaging application, Reuters reports.

During the nearly three-hour attack, several agricultural and port facilities were damaged, several fires were recorded, Oleg Kiper said.

“An agricultural worker who was seriously injured died at the hospital,” Kiper said.

Reuters says it was unable to independently verify the information.

07:04The Russian helicopter pilot escaped to Ukraine and will receive a reward equivalent to 500,000 dollars, Ukrainian media reports.

A quick summary of the latest information:

• The first destroyed Challenger 2 tank in Ukraine: The crew survived the attack thanks to the “quality” of British equipment
• Zelensky after visiting the front line: “I outlined several priority positions with the fighters. What must be done will be done”
• Putin claims that the West installed Zelensky “to cover the glorification of Nazism”
• Ukraine accuses a Russian oligarch of financing the invasion. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has accused Russian oligarch of Ukrainian origin Mykhailo Fridman of financing Russia’s war against Ukraine, CNN reports.
• Ex-President of Ukraine: The counteroffensive is “not Hollywood” and the West should “believe in Ukraine”
• Jonuts Stroe on the insistence of Ukrainian officials that a drone crashed in Romania: This does not help them, it even creates anti-Ukrainian sentiments
• US ambassador to Japan: Russia’s appeal to North Korea for arms shows ‘how big a failure this war is’

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