More than two dozen Russian drones attacked Ukraine’s capital Kiev on Friday, authorities said, injuring two people and damaging residential buildings in Moscow’s latest nighttime drone attack on Ukrainian territory.
It was the sixth such attack against Kiev this month and part of a larger swarm of drones targeting parts of central, southern and western Ukraine, the country’s air force said.
Ukrainian air defenses shot down 24 of 28 attack drones, according to the Air Force.
Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram that a drone had struck an apartment block in the Solomyanskyi district, south of the city center, sparking a fire on the upper floors that was quickly brought under control.
Emergency services also reported that several apartments were damaged on the 24th, 25th and 26th floors of the building. Two people were injured, including one who is being treated in hospital.
The incident occurred a few hundred meters from a maternity hospital.
A video posted on social media showed a giant orange flame rising into the night sky.
Klitschko also said drone fragments had set fire to a house under construction in the Darnytskyi district, on the east bank of the Dnipro River, which runs through the city.
Serhiy Popko, head of Kiev’s military administration, said fragments from a downed drone hit a building in a third area, also south of the city center.
He posted photos showing broken windows and extensive damage to the apartments.
Ukraine’s southern command said an unspecified infrastructure facility in the Mykolaiv region had been hit and that fragments from a downed drone had damaged a grain storage facility in the Odessa region.
No injuries were reported and the resulting fires were extinguished, authorities said.
(Reporting by Serhiy Karazy, Valentyn Ogirenko, Pavel Polityuk and Dan Peleschuk)
Source: CNN Brasil
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