Ukraine war: Russian borders attacked, Kyiv resists drone strikes, US satellites for Ukraine

The Russian army claimed today that it bombed and "hit" anti-aircraft defence systems in Ukraine last night in a new missile and drone attack that Kyiv said caused no casualties.

"Last night," the Russian defence ministry said in a statement, "Russian aerospace forces carried out a group strike using high-precision, long-range weapons from the air, on enemy air defence systems covering key military infrastructure". The ministry insisted that the strike had hit "all" its targets.

Ukrainian air defences shot down more than 30 Russian cruise missiles and drones in Moscow's sixth air attack in six days on Kyiv, local officials said on Friday.

"Tonight, the enemy used 15 cruise missiles and 18 Iranian Shahed drones – all of which were destroyed by our defenders", the Ukrainian army claimed in a statement issued via Facebook.

A 68-year-old man and an 11-year-old child were wounded in the attack, with private houses, outbuildings and cars sustaining damage from falling debris, according to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office.

Following a reported 17 drone and missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital in May, Russian forces hit Kyiv on Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding others.

Russian officials have said they repelled multiple drone attacks in the border regions of Belgorod and Kursk early on Friday morning.

"Tonight, several Ukrainian drones were shot down by an air defence system near Kursk," Roman Starovoyt, the governor of Kursk, said on Telegram.

His counterpart in Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that drone attacks had left his city without electricity.

According to Gladkov, shrapnel from one of the attacks killed two women and wounding two other civilians.

The Russian authorities have previously claimed