“The most massive” drone attacks since the start of the Russian invasion. This is what the city of kyiv claims to have suffered on the night of Saturday May 27 to Sunday May 28. According to local authorities, the Russian military used Iranian-made Shahed drones to carry out the attack, which was largely repelled by air defense systems. 52 of the 54 drones launched in the country were destroyed, according to the Ukrainian Air Force, including “over 40” just in the capital. Find the latest developments in this conflict in our live.
The three missing from the attack on a hospital in Dnipro are dead. After the cessation of research in the rubble of a clinic in this city in the east of the country bombed on Friday, three people were still missing. They have been officially declared dead, as authorities announced on Telegram on Sunday morning, after “study body fragments found at the scene of the tragedy”. The toll of this strike is 4 dead and 32 wounded.
A mobilization spot broadcast in Ukraine. In a message posted on social networks, the commander of the Ukrainian armed forces, General Valerii Zalouzhni, hinted that a major operation was imminent. “The time has come to take back what is ours”he said on Saturday, attaching to his message a video showing heavily armed Ukrainian soldiers preparing for battle – and inviting their fellow citizens to mobilize.
The Ukrainian army is “ready” for its counter-offensive. That’s what he said Oleksiï Danilov, secretary of the National Security Council of Ukraine, in a BBC interview (article in English) released on saturday. “It could happen tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or in a week”but the chronology is secret, he explained, because kyiv has no “no right to be wrong”. This interview was interrupted by a call from Volodymyr Zelensky to the senior official, to summon him to a meeting dedicated to this question.