Russia unleashed a barrage of drone attacks on seven cities in Ukraine overnight as President Vladimir Putin gifts North Korea’s Kim Jong Un a car.
Ukraine said they had destroyed all 23 drones Russia had launched at the country overnight.
“As a result of combat operations, all 23 “shahids” drones were shot down in Kharkiv, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions,” the military said on Telegram messaging app.
It comes as Kim Jong Un receives a car from Putin as a gift “for his personal use”, according to state news agency KCNA.
The Russian-made car was reportedly delivered to Kim’s top aides by the Russian side on Sunday and the Kremlin’s spokesperson told Russian state news that the leader had received an Aurus car.
The model is considered to be Russia’s first full-size luxury sedan and is also Putin’s presidential car.
The gift could be a violation of a UN ban that Moscow had agreed to adopt against Pyongyang.
The two countries have forged closer ties since Kim and Putin met in September as their international isolation deepened over Russia’s war in Ukraine and North Korea’s nuclear weapons development.