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KYIV, Ukraine — Air raid alarms sounded in Kyiv on Tuesday, a little before 3 a.m. local time. Soon after, there was a succession of loud explosions that shook windows and set off car alarms. In total, there were about two dozen explosions — marking one of the loudest nights of attack on the capital in months.
Three victims were injured in the Solomyansky district of Kyiv, Mayor Klitschko said, and several cars caught fire as a result of falling rocket debris. A building was also damaged. There were no victims in the Obolonsky district, where debris also fell.
Rescuers are working on location, though no victims have been found so far, Klitschko said. The air raid alarms were silenced shortly after 3 a.m. local time.
Earlier on Monday, U.S. National Security Council communications coordinator John Kirby told reporters that Russia has used more than 400 Iranian-supplied drones since August to attack Ukrainian infrastructure and wants Iran to send more, and more advanced models. Under their “full-scale defense partnership,” Moscow and Tehran have also inked a deal to supply Iran with Russian Su-35 jets as well as attack helicopters, radar and training aircraft. New U.S. sanctions are coming, Kirby said.
He said that he could not confirm Russia’s laims that it had shot down one of the Storm Shadow cruise missiles Britain recently supplied Ukraine and that there had been no change in U.S. policy not to send comparable American-made long range missiles or fighter jets to Ukraine.
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“What we are now seeing is absolutely unprecedented,” said Maria Kuznetsova, a spokeswoman for rights group OVD-Info, which says that nearly 20,000 people have been detained for opposing the war and that hundreds, including children, have been criminally charged. “We have never seen such numbers in Russia.”
Francesca Ebel, Mary Ilyushina and Christian Shepherd contributed to this report.
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