At least one person has been killed and four wounded as Ukrainian air defence units fought off a Russian drone attack for the third consecutive night in and around Kyiv.
Emergency services responded to calls in the capital city’s Solomyanskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, Podilskyi and Darnytskyi districts following “explosions”, Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in the early hours of Thursday morning.
“In Podilskyi district, during the firefighting in an apartment building, a body of one dead person was discovered,” Klitschko posted on the Telegram messaging app.
Kyiv’s military administration said earlier on Thursday that falling debris from destroyed Russian drones had struck the Solomyanskyi district in the centre of the Ukrainian capital and at least two people were injured.
Klitschko also said earlier that material from downed Russian drones had damaged a residential building in the Darnytskyi district and caused a balcony fire in the Shevchenkivskyi district.
A picture posted on the official Telegram channel of the Kyiv military administration showed a room in a high-rise building with part of its wall blown out.
Serhiy Popko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, wrote on Telegram that two people were wounded in Darnytskyi “as a result of falling debris”.
The threat of continued attack by Russian drones on Kyiv remained, Ukraine’s Air Force said in a statement.
Explosions were also reported in other regions of Ukraine, including Khmelnytskyi in the west, Mykolaiv in the south and Zaporizhia in the southeast of the country.