Russia launched a number of waves of drone assaults on Kyiv early on Sunday for the second evening in a row, stepping up its assaults on the Ukrainian capital after a number of weeks of pause, the town’s army administration stated.

“The enemy’s UAVs (unmanned aerial automobiles) have been launched in lots of teams and attacked Kyiv in waves, from totally different instructions, on the identical time continuously altering the vectors of motion alongside the route,” Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s army administration, stated on the Telegram messaging app.

“That’s the reason the air raid alerts have been introduced a number of instances within the capital.”

Popko stated that based on preliminary data, Ukraine’s air protection techniques hit near 10 Iranian-made Shahed kamikaze drones in Kyiv and its outskirts.

There have been no preliminary experiences of “essential injury” or casualties, he stated.

Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the experiences. There was no rapid remark from Russia.

Russia began finishing up strikes on Ukraine’s power, army and transport infrastructure in October 2022, six months after Moscow’s troops didn’t take over the capital and withdrew to Ukraine’s east and south.

Over final winter, Russia pounded Ukraine with lots of of missiles and drones, leaving thousands and thousands with out electrical energy, heating and water in the course of the coldest months of the 12 months – earlier than easing the assaults in the summertime.

After a pause of 52 days, Moscow resumed air strikes on Kyiv earlier this month. On Saturday, Ukrainian officers stated all drones heading towards Kyiv have been destroyed, however some hit infrastructure services elsewhere in Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and different officers have warned that Russia would resume its large-scale bombardments of Ukrainian civilian infrastructure in the course of the winter months.