Russian forces launched 32 explosive drones on Ukraine, mostly in the Kiev region, overnight from Saturday to Sunday, according to the Ukrainian army, which claimed to have shot down 25 of them. “Last night, the occupiers attacked Ukraine with 32 Shahed-136/131 type kamikaze drones, of which 25 were destroyed by the Ukrainian air defense forces. The Russian occupiers directed most of the attack drones towards the kyiv region,” the Ukrainian General Staff said in its situation update on Sunday morning.
According to the Kyiv military administration, an apartment was damaged by falling debris, as well as cars and trolleybus cables. One person was injured, but his life is not in danger, she wrote on Telegram.
A journalist from Agence France-Presse in kyiv heard around ten explosions during the night. According to Sergey Popko, head of the capital’s military administration, debris from downed drones fell on Sviatoshynskyi, Podilskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts. Debris fell on a residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district, in the center of Kiev, without causing any casualties, but causing a fire which was extinguished by the owners, Serguiï Popko indicated on Telegram.
In the Sviatoshynskyi district, located in the west of the capital, debris caused a fire in Sovky Park, one of the city’s best-known public gardens, Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram. In the Podilskyi district in central Kiev, debris fell on an open space and doctors arriving on the scene treated a person suffering from an attack of “acute stress,” according to Vitali Klitschko. Still according to the mayor, more flaming debris fell on a road in the central Solomyanskyi district.
