Kyiv: ukraine On Thursday it was said to have shot down 20 Russian attack drones and two cruise missiles in an overnight attack that wounded at least four in the capital. Kyiv,
“We have a successful air defense operation,” Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat told national television.
“Twenty Martyrs perished – all those flying were shot down.”
In a separate statement, Ukraine’s air force said 20 Iran-made Martyr attack drones were destroyed “mainly in the Kiev region”. Wire,
Kiev’s military administration had earlier said on telegrams that drones had “entered the capital from different directions”, with air defenses destroying “about a dozen” in the city’s airspace.
It said debris was reported in five districts of the city and a 19-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man were hospitalized with shrapnel injuries.
Two people were injured in the Darnitsky district “as a result of falling debris”, Sergiy PopkoThe head of the military administration of Kiev wrote on a telegram.
It was not clear whether they were the same two people.
Emergency services were responding to calls in Solomensky, Shevchenkivsky, . Podilsky and “Explosion in the capital”, Darnitsky district after Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko Said Earlier.
In Podilsky, firefighters discovered “the body of a dead man”, klitschko He did not directly link the overnight attack to an incident posted on Telegram.
Klitschko also said that two people were “hospitalised” in Darnitsky after falling debris damaged a residential building.
It is not clear whether they were the same two people mentioned by the military administration.
Klitschko said two other people in Shevchenkivsky were treated at the scene.
A fire broke out at an apartment building in Shevchenkivsky and a non-residential building in Podilsky, he said, adding that emergency services were on site.
A photo posted on Telegram by Kiev’s military administration showed a room in a high-rise building with part of its wall blown away, saying it was the result of falling debris in the Darnitsky district.
The Air Force of Ukraine said on Telegram that the Air Force of Ukraine also destroyed two Kalibr cruise missiles during the night.
It added that an Iskander-M ballistic missile was also launched from Crimea, the southern peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.
It added that details regarding the missile launch are “still being clarified”.
“We have a successful air defense operation,” Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat told national television.
“Twenty Martyrs perished – all those flying were shot down.”
In a separate statement, Ukraine’s air force said 20 Iran-made Martyr attack drones were destroyed “mainly in the Kiev region”. Wire,
Kiev’s military administration had earlier said on telegrams that drones had “entered the capital from different directions”, with air defenses destroying “about a dozen” in the city’s airspace.
It said debris was reported in five districts of the city and a 19-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man were hospitalized with shrapnel injuries.
Two people were injured in the Darnitsky district “as a result of falling debris”, Sergiy PopkoThe head of the military administration of Kiev wrote on a telegram.
It was not clear whether they were the same two people.
Emergency services were responding to calls in Solomensky, Shevchenkivsky, . Podilsky and “Explosion in the capital”, Darnitsky district after Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko Said Earlier.
In Podilsky, firefighters discovered “the body of a dead man”, klitschko He did not directly link the overnight attack to an incident posted on Telegram.
Klitschko also said that two people were “hospitalised” in Darnitsky after falling debris damaged a residential building.
It is not clear whether they were the same two people mentioned by the military administration.
Klitschko said two other people in Shevchenkivsky were treated at the scene.
A fire broke out at an apartment building in Shevchenkivsky and a non-residential building in Podilsky, he said, adding that emergency services were on site.
A photo posted on Telegram by Kiev’s military administration showed a room in a high-rise building with part of its wall blown away, saying it was the result of falling debris in the Darnitsky district.
The Air Force of Ukraine said on Telegram that the Air Force of Ukraine also destroyed two Kalibr cruise missiles during the night.
It added that an Iskander-M ballistic missile was also launched from Crimea, the southern peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.
It added that details regarding the missile launch are “still being clarified”.