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Body recovered from rubble
Kyiv reports fatalities after drone attacks
10/17/2022 10:41 am
Drones have also damaged a residential building in new attacks on Kyiv. Several people were apparently buried under the rubble. A woman did not survive the attack.
According to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, a woman died after several drone attacks in central Kiev. Her body was recovered from the rubble of a hit home. Another person is still under the rubble, three others had to be taken to the hospital. A total of 18 people were rescued from the apartment building. “Everything that happens here is terrorism,” Klitschko told the press.
The air alert in Kyiv was lifted after more than three hours. The city administration called on people to continue to be careful and to go to shelters immediately in the event of another alarm. Railway boss Olexander Kamyshin reported on Twitter about an impact not far from the main train station. But there were no victims, he wrote. Photos of damaged and burning buildings were published on social networks.
After the new attacks on Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskyj called on the people of Ukraine to hold on. “All night and all morning the enemy is terrorizing the civilian population. All of Ukraine is being attacked with kamikaze drones and rockets,” Zelenskyy wrote on the online networks. “The enemy can attack our cities, but they won’t be able to break us,” he assured.
Exactly one week after heavy Russian air raids, the Ukrainian capital was rocked again by several explosions. According to the Ukrainian government, Kyiv was attacked with kamikaze drones. According to Klitschko, the drone attack sparked a fire and damaged several residential buildings in the downtown Shevchenkivskyi district. In addition, hundreds of towns and villages are without electricity, Prime Minister Denys Schmyhal said.
According to the Ukrainian power plant operator Enerhoatom, the occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has also been cut off from the external power supply as a result of “fire by the Russian military”. This is extremely important for cooling the fuel rods. Diesel generators were put into operation as a replacement.
In addition to Kyiv, there were also reports of Russian attacks from the Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk and Odessa regions. Russian military bloggers close to the Kremlin reported that the country’s energy infrastructure in particular had been shelled.