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KIEV: Ukraine said on Thursday it had 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 forces Spokesman Yuriy Ignat told national television.
“Twenty witnesses were destroyed – all the planes were shot down.”
The Ukrainian Air Force said in a separate statement that the 20 Iranian attack drones belonging to Shahed were destroyed “mainly in the Kiev region”. cable.
The military administration in Kiev said earlier that the drones “entered the capital from different directions,” adding that the air defenses had destroyed “about 12” in the city’s airspace.
She added that falling debris was reported in five districts of the city, adding that a 19-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds.
Two people were injured in the Darnitsky district “as a result of falling rubble,” Sergei Popkohead of the military department in Kiev, he wrote on Telegram.
It was not clear if they were the same person.
Emergency services were responding to calls in Solomyansky, Shevchenkivsky, Podilsky Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said earlier that the Darnitsky and Darnitsky districts were in the aftermath of “explosions in the capital”.
In Podilskyi, firefighters discovered “the body of a dead person”, Klitschko Posted on Telegram, in an incident that did not directly link him to the night attack.
Klitschko also said that two people were taken to the “hospital” in Darnitsky after falling debris destroyed an apartment building.
It was not clear if they were the same two people mentioned by the military administration.
Klitschko said two others in Shevchenkivsk were treated at the scene.
Fires broke out in a residential building in Shevchenkivsky and in a non-residential building in Podilsky, he said, adding that emergency services are on the scene.
A photo posted by the Kiev Military Department on Telegram showed a room in a high-rise building with part of its wall shattered, in what it said was the result of falling debris in the Darnitsky district.
The Ukrainian Air Force said on Telegram that Ukrainian air defenses also destroyed two Kalibr cruise missiles overnight.
It added that an Iskander-M ballistic missile was also launched from the southern Crimea peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.
It added that information “is still under clarification” regarding the missile launch.
“We have a successful air defense operation,” air forces Spokesman Yuriy Ignat told national television.
“Twenty witnesses were destroyed – all the planes were shot down.”
The Ukrainian Air Force said in a separate statement that the 20 Iranian attack drones belonging to Shahed were destroyed “mainly in the Kiev region”. cable.
The military administration in Kiev said earlier that the drones “entered the capital from different directions,” adding that the air defenses had destroyed “about 12” in the city’s airspace.
She added that falling debris was reported in five districts of the city, adding that a 19-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds.
Two people were injured in the Darnitsky district “as a result of falling rubble,” Sergei Popkohead of the military department in Kiev, he wrote on Telegram.
It was not clear if they were the same person.
Emergency services were responding to calls in Solomyansky, Shevchenkivsky, Podilsky Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said earlier that the Darnitsky and Darnitsky districts were in the aftermath of “explosions in the capital”.
In Podilskyi, firefighters discovered “the body of a dead person”, Klitschko Posted on Telegram, in an incident that did not directly link him to the night attack.
Klitschko also said that two people were taken to the “hospital” in Darnitsky after falling debris destroyed an apartment building.
It was not clear if they were the same two people mentioned by the military administration.
Klitschko said two others in Shevchenkivsk were treated at the scene.
Fires broke out in a residential building in Shevchenkivsky and in a non-residential building in Podilsky, he said, adding that emergency services are on the scene.
A photo posted by the Kiev Military Department on Telegram showed a room in a high-rise building with part of its wall shattered, in what it said was the result of falling debris in the Darnitsky district.
The Ukrainian Air Force said on Telegram that Ukrainian air defenses also destroyed two Kalibr cruise missiles overnight.
It added that an Iskander-M ballistic missile was also launched from the southern Crimea peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.
It added that information “is still under clarification” regarding the missile launch.
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