an attack by 32 Russian drones in the night, 25 shot down

2023-09-10 09:12:00

The majority of attacks took place in the kyiv region. The Ukrainian army claims to have shot down 25 aircraft, no casualties have been reported.

By JB with AFP The attack took place in the kyiv area during the night from Saturday to Sunday. © Evgen Kotenko / Avalon / MAXPPP / PHOTOSHOT/MAXPPP Published on 09/10/2023 at 9:12 a.m.

Russian forces launched 32 explosive drones on Ukraine, mostly in the Kiev region, during the night from Saturday to Sunday, according to the Ukrainian army which claimed to have shot down 25 of them. “Last night, the occupiers attacked Ukraine with 32 Shahed-136/131 suicide drones, 25 of which were destroyed by the Ukrainian air defense forces. The Russian occupiers directed most of the attack drones towards the kyiv region,” the Ukrainian General Staff indicated in its situation update on Sunday morning.

According to the kyiv military administration, an apartment was damaged by falling debris, as were cars and trolleybus cables. One person was injured, but his life is not in danger, she wrote on Telegram.

A dozen explosions during the night

A journalist from Agence France-Presse in kyiv heard around ten explosions during the night. According to Sergii Popko, head of the capital’s military administration, debris from downed drones fell on the Sviatoshynskyi, Podilskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts. Debris fell on a residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district, in central Kiev, without causing any casualties, but causing a fire which was extinguished by the owners, Serguiï Popko said on Telegram.

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In the Sviatoshynskyi district, located in the west of the capital, debris caused a fire in Sovky Park, one of the city’s best-known public gardens, Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram. In the Podilskyi district in central Kiev, debris fell on an open space and doctors who arrived on the scene treated a person suffering from an attack of “acute stress”, according to Vitali Klitschko. Still according to the mayor, more flaming debris fell on a road in the central Solomyanskyi district.