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“FAIR RESPONSE”
Air defences last downed a missile in Kyiv on Sep 21. The falling debris wounded seven people, including a child.
There were no reported casualties or damage in the capital itself on Saturday.
But two missiles hit a field between two settlements in the wider Kyiv region, the head of the regional military administration said.
“The blast wave damaged five private residential buildings. In particular, roofs and windows were smashed,” Ruslan Kravchenko said.
Other regions of Ukraine meanwhile fended off drone attacks overnight.
The air force said it downed 19 of the 31 attack drones launched by Moscow between Friday evening and Saturday 3am (0100 GMT).
“The Russian occupants sent most of the attack UAVs to the frontline areas,” it said.
It added Russia used several missiles overnight, but did not specify if any of them were downed.
Ukraine warned it may attack Russian oil and gas infrastructure if Moscow repeats its campaign of strikes on energy infrastructure over the winter.
Energy Minister German Galushchenko said it “would be fair” to target Russia’s oil and gas infrastructure if Ukraine’s power grid came under sustained attacks, in an interview with Politico.
On the ground, Ukrainian forces are facing assaults from Russian troops around the eastern frontline town of Avdiivka.
“Our servicemen and women are steadfastly holding the line in the Avdiivka sector,” Ukrainian army commander Oleksandr Tarnavskyi said.
Ukrainian officials said earlier this week they were bracing for a third wave of attacks from Russian forces, which began storming the Avdiivka about one month ago.
Over the past day, two people were killed in the southern frontline Kherson and eight others were wounded, governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.
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