kyiv claims to have shot down twenty-four Russian drones overnight

“A residential building in Kiev was attacked by a shahet”An Iranian-made drone is routinely used by Moscow to attack Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, wrote on Telegram this Thursday evening.

The incident took place in the Solomiansky district, southwest of the capital “Flames on Upper Floors” Of the building, the mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko, was added to Telegram. One person in the neighborhood was hospitalized and another received medical treatment at the site, he added, without giving further details.

This is the first such incident in months in the Ukrainian capital. Although Kyiv is regularly targeted by Russian drone and missile attacks, most of them are shot down by air defenses.

An air alarm was sounded in the evening at Kew. After a while, the people of the area heard a loud explosion. The town hall initially announced that air defenses were active in the city, calling on residents to stay in shelters.

The city’s military administration posted photos on Telegram of apartments whose floor-to-ceiling windows were blown apart by the explosion. He said it was not a drone attack, but fragments of a downed drone.

A short time later, debris from another drone shot down by air defenses fell on a detached house in the Darnytskyi district in the east of the city, Mr. Klitschko announced. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that several groups of drones were advancing across the country towards various regions in the center, west and south.