Russia has launched nearly 500 drones in Ukraine in the largest overnight drone bombing of the three-year war, the Ukrainian Air Force said.
It was the latter in a series of Moscow of Moscow, because Ukraine destroyed a number of Russian bombers in drone raids on air basses deep in the country earlier this month.
The Ukrainian Air Force says that Russia has also fired 20 missiles from different species in different parts of the country, mainly focused on central and Western areas.
Russian soldiers ride an Akatsyia self -driving gun in an unknown location in Ukraine. ((AP: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP))
The air defense units of Ukraine ran 460 of the 479 drones and 19 of the 20 missiles launched by the Russian troops, the Air Force said in a statement.
A military airport in the city of Dubno, close to the western border of Ukraine, was the most important target, said spokesperson for the Air Force Yuriy Ihnat.
Civil servants said one person was injured.
The Associated Press could not verify these claims independently.
Russia renews the push on the front line
This escalation in air strikes comes as Russia renews its push on the east and northeast parts of the approximately 1,000 kilometers of front line.
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy said at the end of Sunday, local time, that in some of those areas “the situation is very difficult”, but gave no details.
The Ukrainian General Staff claimed on Monday that special operational troops have hit two Russian fighter jets at Savasleyka Airfield in the Nizhny Novgorod region in Russia, about 650 kilometers northeast of the Ukrainian border.
The statement did not say how the planes were hit and there was no immediate comments on the claim of the Russian authorities.
Some Russian war bloggers said that according to AP there was no damage to the war aircraft.
Russia and Ukraine exchange younger, wounded prisoners of war
Russia and Ukraine performed on Monday, local time, local time, local time, in which prisoners of war younger than 25 years were involved and others who were seriously injured.
It was the beginning of what could be the greatest prisoner -swap of the war so far.
Ukrainian prisoners of war have been exchanged at an unknown location in Ukraine. ((Reuters: VolodyMyr Zelenskiy via Telegram/Handout))
The two nations reached an agreement during direct conversations in Istanbul to exchange at least 1,200 prisoners of war on each side and repatriate thousands of bodies of those who were killed in the war.
It was one of the few things that the two parties agreed earlier this month, although broader negotiations did not come close to end the war.
Mr. Zenskyy said that his country had received a first group of prisoners from Russia, and added that it would take a few days to complete the swap.
None of the parties said how many prisoners had been changed on Monday.
But the Russian Ministry of Defense said in his own statement that the same number of soldiers on each side had been exchanged.
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