KYIV (Reuters) – A Russian air assault on Kyiv broken buildings, roads and several other energy strains within the metropolis, the capital’s army administration stated early on Sunday, after the army stated air defences have been making an attempt to repel a drone assault.
There have been no accidents within the assault, which got here in waves and approached town from completely different instructions, Serhiy Popko, the top of the Kyiv army administration, stated on the Telegram messaging app.
Popko stated there was no hearth, amending the administration’s earlier account that emergency crews had been dispatched to the positioning of a fireplace within the Shevchenkivskyi district that it stated had been brought on by the assault.
It was Russia’s second drone assault on Kyiv in as many nights. Based on preliminary info, the entire assault drones have been destroyed, Popko added. It was not instantly clear what number of drones have been launched at Kyiv.
Falling drone particles broken an entrance and home windows of a minimum of 5 buildings within the Shevchenkivskyi and Holosiivskyi districts, together with a hostel and home windows in an workplace constructing, Popko stated.
The army posted a number of pictures on Telegram displaying a blown-out entrance to a constructing, broken home windows in one other and energy strains mendacity on the highway.
Reuters witnesses reported listening to blasts and seeing plumes of smoke rising from above residential buildings.
Shevchenkivskyi district close to Kyiv’s centre is a busy space with a cluster of universities, eating places and vacationer sights. Holosiivskyi district is residence to a big nationwide park. Each districts lie on the western financial institution of the Dnipro River.
Kyiv, its surrounding area and the overwhelming majority of the japanese half of Ukraine have been intermittently underneath air raid alerts for a lot of the night time, in accordance with alerts issued on social media by the Ukrainian army.
