Sirens wail in Kyiv, governor says drone attack underway

Reuters :
Residents of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv were urged to head to air raid shelters early on Friday as sirens wailed across the city, a day after Russia carried out the biggest aerial assault since it started the war in February.
Shortly after 2.00 am Kyiv’s city government issued an alert on its Telegram messaging app channel about the air raid sirens and called on residents to proceed to shelters. Olekskiy Kuleba, governor of Kyiv region, said on Telegram that an “attack by drones” was under way.
A witness 20 km (12 miles) south of Kyiv heard several explosions and the sound of anti-aircraft fire.
Kyiv officials said five Iranian Shahed drones were detected in the air and destroyed.
An administrative building was partly destroyed, said Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s civilian military administration, but there was no information yet about casualties.
Kyiv says Iran is supplying Moscow with drones for its air attacks, but Tehran says it last sent drones to Russia before the war started.
The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces Friday morning report said Russia had launched 85 missile strikes, 35 air strikes, and 63 strikes from multiple rocket launch systems in the past 24 hours.
It said Moscow’s forces also shelled 20 settlements around the bombed out town of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, where some of the fiercest fighting is being waged, and more than 25 settlements in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.
The battlefield reports could not be immediately verified.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said most regions hit in Thursday’s massive air attack suffered power outages.
The areas where loss of power was “especially difficult” included the capital Kyiv, Odesa and Kherson in the south and surrounding regions, and around Lviv near the western border with Poland, Zelensky said.