Officials in Ukraine’s capital said Thursday that Russia attacked the region with about a dozen aerial drones overnight.
Serhii Popko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, said Ukraine’s air defenses shot down all of the drones and that there were no reports of casualties or damage.
In the Mykolaiv region in southern Ukraine, Governor Vitalii Kim said the military shot down three Russian drones.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday it destroyed seven Ukrainian aerial drones, including four over the Kursk region and three over the Black Sea.
Officials in Russia’s Bryansk region also reported several drones were shot down there overnight.
The United States said Wednesday that 3,000 North Korean troops were dispatched to Russia earlier this month and are being trained there, possibly to fight alongside Moscow’s troops in their war against Ukraine.
