Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv destroyed 37,000 drones in 2024 as scientists killed in New Year attack
Ukraine’s navy destroyed more than 37,000 Russian drones through 2024, it said yesterday as the war inched closer to the third-year mark.
The downed platforms included operational and tactical unmanned aerial vehicles, first-person-view drones and Shahed-type attack drones, the navy said in a Facebook post. The naval forces also destroyed five Russian ships and 458 watercraft, it added.
The latest Russian drone attack on Kyiv killed a prominent scientist couple and left six people injured, education and scientist minister Oksen Lisovyi said.
The minister identified the couple as prominent neurobiologist Ihor Zyma and doctor of biological sciences Olesia Sokur. “The family devoted almost their entire lives to science,” Mr Lisovyi said.
More than 100 drones targeted the Ukrainian capital in the early hours of Wednesday as the rest of the world was celebrating the arrival of 2025.
Ukraine, meanwhile, halted Russian gas supplies to European customers that pass through the country, almost three years into the conflict with its neighbour, after a transit deal signed before the war expired.
