Residential building hit in kyiv, two injured
“A residential building in kyiv hit by a Shahed”an Iranian-made drone regularly used by Moscow to attack Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, wrote on Telegram this Thursday evening.
The incident took place in the Solomiansky district in the southwest of the capital, with “flames on upper floors” of the building, added on Telegram the mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko. One man was hospitalized in this neighborhood, another received medical treatment on site, he added without giving further details.
This is the first incident of this kind in months in the Ukrainian capital. While kyiv is regularly targeted by Russian drone and missile attacks, most of them are shot down by air defense.
The air alarm was sounded late in the evening in kyiv. Shortly after, local residents heard loud explosions. The town hall initially announced that air defense was operating in the city, calling on residents to stay in shelters.
The city’s military administration published photos on Telegram of apartments with floor-to-ceiling windows blown out by explosions. She said it was not a drone strike but fragments from a downed drone.
Shortly after, Mr. Klitschko announced that debris from another drone shot down by air defense had fallen on a detached house in the Darnytsky district in the east of the city. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that several groups of drones were advancing across the country towards various regions in the center, west and south of the country.