The capital kyiv targeted by a new drone attack
Ukrainian air defenses shot down more than twenty Russian drones targeting kyiv at dawn on Sunday, Ukrainian authorities announced.
“Drones entered the capital in groups and from different directions. Air defense forces managed to destroy more than two dozen enemy drones »the kyiv military administration announced on its Telegram account.
The exact number of drones shot down will be announced later, she added, without specifying whether all the drones had been destroyed in flight or whether some had hit the city.
According to the same source, an apartment was damaged by falling debris, as well as cars and trolleybus cables. One person was injured, but his life is not in danger, she wrote on Telegram.
A journalist from Agence France-Presse in kyiv heard around ten explosions during the night.
According to Serhi Popko, head of the capital’s military administration, debris from drones shot down by Ukrainian air defense fell on several districts of the capital.
Debris fell on a residential building in the Shevchenko district of central Kiev, causing no injuries but causing a fire that was put out by the building’s owners, Popko said on Telegram.
In the Svyatochyne district, located in the west of the capital, debris caused a fire in Sovky Park, one of the city’s best-known public gardens, Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.
In the Podil district of central kyiv, debris fell on an open space, and doctors who arrived on the scene treated a person suffering from a seizure. “acute stress”according to Mr. Klitschko.
According to the mayor, other flaming debris fell on a road in the central district of Solomyanka.