Russia has lashed out with a Kamikaze drone strike in the heart of Ukraine’s Kyiv oblast this morning, according to the regional governor.
The drone attack on Bila Tserkva city damaged some infrastructure and started a fire, with one person injured, Kyiv’s governor Oleksiy Kuleba said.
It comes as Volodymyr Zelensky says his soldiers are moving rapidly to push back Russian forces in the war-hit country’s south, recapturing territory in several regions.
“The Ukrainian army is carrying out a pretty fast and powerful advance in the south of our country as part of the current defence operation. Dozens of settlements have already been liberated from the Russian sham referendum this week alone,” Mr Zelensky said.
Ukraine has taken back swathes of land in Kherson, Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk, parts of which Russia claims control over after last week’s illegal referenda.
Meanwhile, the US has said in a new assessment that it has no indication Vladimir Putin is preparing to use nuclear weapons, despite “nuclear sabre-rattling”.
