A week later, kyiv was again targeted by Russia on Monday. “Suicide drones” targeted a central district of the capital. A series of explosions were heard in the early morning and air-raid sirens had sounded shortly before the first blast. An AFP journalist saw one of these drones descend on a building, while two kneeling police officers tried to shoot it down with their service weapons.
Attacks have also taken place elsewhere in the country, particularly in the south. “All night and all morning, the enemy terrorizes the civilian population. Kamikaze drones and missiles attack Ukraine. A residential building in kyiv was hit,” President Volodymyr Zelensky explained on social media. “The enemy may attack our cities, but they will not be able to break us. »
Two people under the rubble
Four strikes were recorded according to the kyiv military administration, which specifies that a residential building in the Shevchenko district, in the city center, was hit. “Eighteen people were rescued (from this building). According to initial information, two people are under the rubble, ”said the mayor, Vitali Klitschko, on Telegram.
“They seem to attack us every Monday,” Serguii Prikhodko, a taxi driver waiting for a ride not far from the station, told AFP. “It’s a new way to start the week,” he added, as the capital had already been targeted by strikes the previous Monday. The management of the national railway services had previously confirmed that attacks had taken place “near” the central station.
“In the past 13 hours, the Ukrainian army has shot down 37 Iranian Shahed-136 drones and 3 Russian cruise missiles,” the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said on Twitter. In the south of the country, the army had previously indicated that it had shot down 26 Shahed-136s overnight from Sunday to Monday, Iranian aircraft bought by Moscow according to the West and Ukraine, despite denials from Tehran.