Zelensky says ‘Russian society has raised a second Hitler’ in attack on Putin
Russia launched a massive air attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and five other cities overnight, injuring at least 18 people and damaging infrastructure facilities across the country.
Vladimir Putin’s troops targeted Kherson, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, an industrial zone in the region of Lviv and the northwest city of Rivne, damaging energy infrastructure across the country, evoking memories of last year’s Russian air campaign which causes sweeping outages ahead of winter.
The strikes coincided with the United Nations General Assembly summit in New York where president Volodymyr Zelensky said “humankind no longer pins its hope on the UN” to protect borders.
It comes as a Ukrainian intelligence source claimed Ukraine’s SBU security service and navy struck the Saky air base in Russian-occupied Crimea overnight, inflicting “serious damage”.
“Strikes by the Security Service and the Navy hit the target and caused serious damage to the occupiers’ equipment,” the source claimed, describing an operation that the source said used first drones and then Neptune cruise missiles.
The source added that at least 12 combat aircraft and man-portable air-defense systems were located at the base.
