our program. more action on our program. here s our diplomatic correspondent paul adams i asked him if he thought this attack has touched a nerve with president putin. i think this is something where whoever was responsible, the intention seems to have been to give muscovites a flavour of what the people of kyiv have been experiencing for months, especially during the month of may where it has come under such repeated attack. the scale of what happened in moscow overnight was very small by comparison, but the impact, the psychological impact, is clearly designed to mirror that in some way to sow a level of uncertainty and fear among the people of moscow. the foreign ministry has talked about taking the harshest of measures in response. it is unclear where they might go tactically.
kyiv staged a terrorist attack using eight drones a claim denied by ukraine. it follows an attack on kyiv, with ukrainian officials saying more than 20 drones had been destroyed. one person was killed in what was the seventeenth attack on kyiv since the start of may. there s been some mixed reaction from ukraine s allys. in a statement, the white house has said the us does not support attacks inside of russia . they are also trying to find out about what happened earlier in the day. meanwhile in estonia, the uk s foreign ministerjames cleverly was asked about the drone attack and said ukraine does have the right to attack russian territory. ukraine does have the legitimate right to defend itself. it has a legitimate right to do so within its own borders, of course but it does also have the right to project force beyond its borders to. to undermine russia s
peacekeepers with up to intelligence officers and a former member of israeli security forces have died after a boat carrying tourists overturned on a lake in italy. a crackdown on babes in england shops will no longer be able to offer free samples to children. our main story this hour is the drone attacks on moscow and the attacks on kyiv in ukraine too. we re going to take a closer look now at the the battle above. what military equipment both sides are using in the skies. first russia s drones they include aircraft known as loitering munitions such as the shahed 136 thought be used extensively in the aerial bombing campaign against kyiv. these are supplied by iran. on to ukraine. it s been supplied by a range of uavs and drones by western allies. it has also repurposed commercial uavs used previously for things like crop dusting.
i spoke with ukrainian mp 0leksiy goncharenko. hello. russia carried out a massive drone attack on kyiv overnight. tell us about what happened and the aftermath. yeah, it was day of kyiv and that was kind of congratulation of russia to kyiv, to the capital of ukraine. and again, a new attack and the most the biggest drone attack from the beginning of invasion. again, we saw that civilian infrastructure was hurt partly because almost all the drones were intercepted, but the rest of them, they fell on the civilian areas and houses. one person is killed and a number are injured. that s, again, continuation of russian policy of terror against civilians, throughout the whole country and especially in the
capital of the country, kyiv. and i want to touch on the psychological impact of this war, as well, because you mentioned there the use of drones, and even if they are shot down by a bolstered ukrainian air defence, just tell us about the psychological impact for example, people waking up in the night hearing drones buzzing overhead. it must be. it must be terrifying. yeah, it is. and.yeah, there is also air raid signal you know, throughout almost the whole night, during last night in kyiv and definitely many people heard and how the air defence works a lot of explosions and, yeah, the sound of drone coming is not a pleasant one, i could tell you. the first time russians used them, it was in october of last year it was in 0desa and i heard it by my own ears.