20 Russian drones, 2 cruise missiles shot down in third night time of assaults: Ukraine

By Agence France-Presse: Ukraine mentioned Thursday it had downed 20 Russian assault drones and two cruise missiles in a single day in a 3rd night time of strikes on Kyiv and elsewhere within the nation.

“We have a successful air defense operation,” air pressure spokesman, Yuriy Ignat instructed nationwide tv.

“Twenty Shaheds were destroyed — all those flying were downed.”

The 20 Iran-made Shahed assault drones have been destroyed “mainly in the Kyiv region”, Ukraine’s air pressure mentioned in a separate assertion on Telegram.

The drones had “entered the capital from different directions”, Kyiv’s army administration mentioned on Telegram earlier, including air defences had destroyed “about a dozen” within the metropolis’s airspace.

Falling particles was reported in 5 metropolis districts, it mentioned, including {that a} 19-year-old girl and a 23-year-old man had been hospitalised with shrapnel wounds.

Two individuals have been wounded in Darnytsky district “as a result of falling debris”, Sergiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s army administration, wrote on Telegram.

It was unclear in the event that they have been the identical two individuals.

Emergency companies have been responding to calls in Solomyansky, Shevchenkivsky, Podilsky and Darnytsky districts following “explosions in the capital”, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned earlier.

In Podilsky district, firefighters found the “body of one dead person”, Klitschko posted on Telegram.

Klitschko additionally mentioned two individuals had been “hospitalised” within the Darnytsky district after falling particles broken a residential constructing.

It was not clear in the event that they have been the identical two individuals talked about by the army administration.

Two others in Shevchenkivsky district had been handled on the scene, Klitschko mentioned.

Fires broke out in an house constructing in Shevchenkivsky and in a non-residential constructing within the Podilsky district, he mentioned, including emergency companies have been on web site.

An image posted on Telegram by Kyiv’s army administration confirmed a room in a high-rise constructing with a part of its wall blown out, in what it mentioned was the results of falling particles within the Darnytsky district.

Ukrainian air defences additionally destroyed two Kalibr cruise missiles through the night time, Ukraine’s air pressure mentioned on Telegram.

It mentioned an Iskander-M ballistic missile had additionally been launched from Crimea, a southern peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.

Information was “still being clarified” relating to the missile launch, it mentioned.