Kiev woke up in the middle of the night from Friday to Saturday to be attacked by a gigantic swarm of drones. It was the Russians’ “most massive attack” on the Ukrainian capital since the beginning of the invasion. The anti-aircraft defense claimed to have destroyed almost all of them, 74 out of 75, but the city once again experienced moments of horror that had not been seen for a long time, as the population was without power for several hours. The enemy raid, which left five injured, including an 11-year-old child, also came on a day full of shadows for Ukrainians, the anniversary of the Holodomor: the great famine of the Stalin era that caused the deaths of millions of people in the 1930s. “The enemy has fired a record number of attack drones into Ukraine in the direction of Kiev,” announced the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, General Mykola Oleshchuk. The skies over the city and surrounding areas were flown for six hours by Iranian-made Shaheds supplied to Russian forces. Some residents (and 17,000 people across the region) were freezing due to power outages, and debris from downed drones caused fires and damaged buildings, including a kindergarten.
