Two people were killed and six others injured on Wednesday in kyiv by an attack by Moscow’s army, which launched a wave of 111 drones on Ukraine for New Year’s Day.
“After the morning attack, the number of victims in kyiv increased: two dead, six injured, four people saved,” Ukrainian emergency services said on Telegram. Emergency services also declared that they had brought under control the fire which damaged a residential building and an administrative building in the Pechersk district, in the historic city center of the capital, a fire caused by falling debris from drones shot down by air defense .
The Ukrainian Air Force says it has shot down 63 drones of the 111 that Russia sent to Ukraine, mainly Iranian-designed Shahed attack drones and “other types of drones.” Still according to this source, 76 were lost and disappeared from radars, either thanks to Ukrainian jammers or on their own, without “adverse consequences”, and two others returned to Russia and Belarus.
While this attack caused injuries in the Ukrainian capital, it targeted a large part of the country, with drones having been shot down in the northeast, north, southeast and south of the country, according to the Ukrainian army. the air.
-Vladimir Putin had threatened, at the end of December, to strike the center of kyiv in response to the use of American and British long-range weapons on Russian territory.
AFP
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