Priya Aditi
One person was killed and at least four others were injured in a massive overnight drone attack by Russia on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, according to authorities on Thursday, as explosions were audible throughout the city on the third night of attacks.
“Tonight, a massive attack by Iranian drones took place,” the military administration of Kyiv announced via Telegram.
Iran-made Shahed explosives “entered the capital from different directions,” the report stated, adding that “about a dozen” were intercepted in the city’s airspace. Thursday, according to Kyiv, two cruise missiles and twenty Russian attack drones were destroyed.
Air force spokesperson Yuriy Ignat stated, “Our air defense operation is successful.” “Twenty Shaheds were annihilated; every flying Shahed was shot down. He added that two Kalibr cruise missiles were also annihilated.
Debris precipitates on districts
It was reported that drone detritus had fallen in five districts and that a 23-year-old man and 19-year-old woman were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds.
Two persons were injured in Darnytsky district “as a result of falling debris,” wrote Sergiy Popko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, on Telegram. However, it was unclear whether the two hospitalized individuals mentioned were the same male and woman.
In the Solomyansky, Shevchenkivsky, Podilsky, and Darnytsky districts, emergency services responded to frantic calls following “explosions in the capital,” as stated by the mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko.
“During firefighting in an apartment building in the Podilsky district, the body of a deceased person was discovered,” Klitschko wrote on Telegram.
Two persons were “hospitalized” in the Darnytsky district after falling debris damaged a residential building, according to Klitschko.
Klitschko stated that two others were treated at the site in the Shevchenkivsky district.
In the Shevchenkivsky district, an apartment building caught fire, and in the Podilsky district, a commercial building caught fire, he said, adding that emergency services rushed to the scene.
The military administration of Kiev posted a picture on Telegram depicting a room in a high-rise building with a wall that appears to have been blasted out, which was reportedly caused by falling debris in the Darnytsky district.
Ukraine’s Air Force issued a warning about the continued risk of Russian drone attacks on the city.
Ukraine’s advancement close to Bakhmut
Deputy Ukrainian Defense Minister Hanna Maliar reported on Telegram from the front lines: “In the Bakhmut sector, we attacked today on the southern flank surrounding Bakhmut. There is progress. Our defenders are reinforcing their existing positions.”
Ukrainian forces, according to Maliar, repelled a Russian attempt to advance on cities in the west and north.
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In the direction of the Sea of Azov, they “pressed forward with offensive operations” in the southern direction.Our southern defenders have substantially weakened the enemy’s offensive and defensive capabilities over the past week.
