KYIV (Reuters) -Russia unleashed its newest in a single day drone strike on Ukraine, concentrating on the capital Kyiv in an assault that lasted into noon and wounded no less than one individual, metropolis officers stated on Saturday.
Particles from downed drones struck six metropolis districts, wounding a police officer, damaging residential buildings and beginning fires, based on metropolis army administrator Serhiy Popko.
“One other night time. One other air-raid alert. One other drone assault. The armed forces of the Russian Federation attacked Kyiv once more based on their outdated and acquainted ways,” Popko wrote on social media.
All of the drones aimed toward Kyiv had been shot down, he stated.
Ukrainian vitality supplier DTEK stated a high-voltage line powering the capital and two distribution networks within the Kyiv area had been broken.
DTEK stated in a press release that electrical energy had largely been restored and that repairs had been underway.
Reuters correspondents reported listening to explosions in and across the metropolis throughout an air-raid alert that lasted greater than 5 hours. One drone was seen flying low over town amid the din of automatic-weapons fireplace.
Ukraine’s army reported on Saturday that air defences had destroyed 39 out of 71 Russian drones that had been launched, and that one other 21 had been “locationally misplaced”.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated strikes had been additionally reported within the central Poltava and northeastern Sumy and Kharkiv areas.
“This yr, we have now confronted the specter of ‘Shahed’ drones virtually each night time — typically within the morning, and even throughout the day,” he wrote on social media, referring to the Iranian-made assault drones utilized by Russia.
Russian forces have carried out common airstrikes on Ukrainian cities and cities behind the entrance strains of the warfare which started when Russia invaded its neighbour in February 2022.
Kyiv’s army stated on Friday that Moscow’s forces had launched greater than 2,000 drones at civilian and army targets throughout Ukraine in October alone.
Russia has denied aiming at civilians and stated energy services are official targets when they’re a part of Ukrainian army infrastructure.
