Totally 499 air-launched attack weapons were fired in the attack – more than on any other night in the over three-year-long war, according to the Ukrainian reports.
Most of the projectiles were drones that were destroyed in the air, according to Ukraine, which claims that only a dozen hit their targets.
One person is reported to have been injured.
According to Kyiv, Ukraine in turn attacked a Russian factory that is said to produce components for the Russian drones, about 60 miles east of Moscow on Monday. Russian authorities have announced that production there has been temporarily suspended after a Ukrainian drone attack.
Poland deployed fighter jets on Monday morning.
”Due to the intense air attack from the Russian Federation against Ukrainian territory, Polish and allied aircraft began to operate in Polish airspace in the morning,” the Polish operational command on X reports.
Several hours after the attacks, Russia's Defense Ministry announced that a first group of prisoners of war had been exchanged, in accordance with the agreement that Ukraine and Russia concluded in Istanbul at the beginning of June. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyj writes on X that those being brought home are injured and under 25 years old.
Corrected: In an earlier version of the text, an incorrect number was reported of how many projectiles Ukraine shot down.
