A residential building in Kyiv was hit by an explosive drone on Thursday evening (December 21st) in a new Russian night attack, Ukrainian authorities said, reporting at least one wounded.
This is the first such incident in months in the Ukrainian capital. While Kyiv is regularly targeted by Russian drone and missile attacks, most of them are shot down by air defense.
The air raid alarm was sounded late at night in Kyiv. Soon after, local residents heard loud explosions. The mayor's office initially announced that air defense was operating in the city, calling on residents to stay in shelters.
"A residential building in Kyiv hit by a Shahed," an Iranian-made drone regularly used by Moscow for attacks on its neighbor, the head of the presidential administration Andriy Yermak wrote on Telegram.
Man hospitalized
The incident occurred in the Solomiansky neighborhood in the southwest of the capital, reporting "flames on the upper floors" of the building, Mayor Vitali Klitschko added on Telegram. A man was hospitalized in the area, he added, without giving further details.
The city's military administration posted photos on Telegram of apartments with floor-to-ceiling windows blown out by explosions. She claimed that it was not a drone strike but shrapnel from a downed drone.
Shortly after, Vitali Klitschko announced that debris from another drone shot down by air defense had fallen on a private house in the Darnytsky neighborhood in the east of the city.
Ukraine's air force said several groups of drones were advancing in the country in the direction of various regions in the center, west and south of the country.
With AFP
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