At least one dead in new Russian drone attack on Kyiv – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

At least one person lost their life and two are said to be injured after the night’s air attack on Kyiv on Thursday night. This is reported by the city’s military administration on the messaging app Telegram. This is the third night in a row that the capital Kyiv is under attack by Russian drones. – In the Podilsky district, a dead person was found during firefighting in an apartment building, the city’s mayor, Vitalij Klitschko, said via the Telegram messaging service. An 18-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man were taken to hospital with splinter injuries, writes the online newspaper The Kyiv Independent. The air defense sirens started shortly after midnight on Thursday night. Ukrainian air defense was activated to shoot down the drones. Debris from downed drones fell over several districts, Residents stand in the street outside a residential building that was hit in a Russian drone attack on the night of Thursday, July 13, 2023. Photo: AP Several explosions The emergency response teams moved to four districts after reports of explosions. In the Darnytskyj district in the east of the capital, two people were injured by debris that fell and caused destruction in a residential building, the mayor said. The head of Kyiv’s military administration, Sergiy Popko, also mentions on Telegram that two people were wounded in Darnytskyj, but according to the AFP news agency it is unclear whether they are the same two people that Klitschko mentions. Two others were supervised by health personnel at the scene in the district of Shevchenkivskyi further west, where a balcony caught fire. According to the Military Administration, wreckage had also fallen over the Solomyanskyj district, which is located in the center of the city. The Ukrainian Air Force stated later on Thursday night that the threat from the Russian drone attack is still valid. An entrance in an apartment building that is full of drops of blood after the building was hit in a Russian attack against the capital Kyiv on the night of Thursday, July 13, 2023. Photo: AP On the night of Thursday, explosions could also be heard elsewhere in the country, including in Khmelnytskyj in the west, in Mykolajiv in the south, and in Zaporizhzhya in the southeast.



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