KYIV: Russia and Ukraine exchanged missile and drone strikes early Sunday, resulting in more homes and utility buildings destroyed, officials from the warring neighbors said.

Kyiv came under Russian missile attack and witnesses said they heard a loud blast shaking the capital city soon after midnight Saturday, the military administration of the Ukrainian capital said on its Telegram messaging app.

In the southern Russian region of Voronezh, a woman sustained a leg injury from Ukraine’s overnight drone attack that also resulted in several homes and utility buildings catching fire from falling drone debris, the governor said.

Air defense units destroyed about 15 Ukrainian drones over the region, Governor Alexander Gusev, wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

“The threat of further drone attacks remains,” Gusev said in the post early on Sunday.

Reuters could not independently verify Gusev’s report. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine.

Both sides deny targeting civilians in their strike in the war that Russia launched with a full-scale invasion on Ukraine in February 2022.
Kyiv says that its attacks inside Russia are aimed at destroying infrastructure key to Moscow’s war efforts and are in response to Russia’s relentless strikes on Ukraine.
The Russian defense ministry said that its units destroyed 41 drones just before midnight on Saturday over Russian regions bordering Ukraine and over the waters of the Black Sea.