Russia carried out an overnight drone attack on Kyiv, resulting in injuries to at least seven people and fires in high-rise apartment buildings and throughout the Ukrainian capital, officials said on Sunday.
“A massive enemy drone attack on Kyiv. So far, seven residents of the capital have been injured. One of them has been hospitalised,” Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
“Emergency services were dispatched to several districts where fires were reported,” Klitschko added.
Timur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, said falling debris from a destroyed drone sparked fires in high-rise apartment buildings in the historic Podil district and the Dniprovskyi district across the Dnipro River.
The scale of the attack was not immediately clear.
Another two people were injured and several houses damaged in the region surrounding Kyiv, according to regional governor Mykola Kalashnik.
There was no immediate comment from Russia. Both sides deny targeting civilians in the three-year-long war that began with Russian President Vladimir Putin ordering a “special military operation” in Ukraine, in February 2022.
The United States, led by its new leader Donald Trump, is pushing for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, hoping to get them to agree on a partial ceasefire that would halt strikes on energy infrastructure. However, both sides have been reporting continued strikes.
Kyiv, its surrounding region and the eastern half of Ukraine were under air raid alerts for more than five hours, starting late on Saturday, according to Ukraine’s Air Force maps.
