One killed, two injured in Russia drone attack on Kyiv

AFP

An overnight Russian drone attack on the Kyiv region killed one person, injured at least two and set several houses on fire, governor of the region that surrounds the Ukrainian capital, Mykola Kalashnyk, said on Wednesday.

The body of a civilian was found in a residential house that caught fire as a result of the attack, Kalashnyk wrote in a post on the Telegram messaging app.

"My condolences to the family and loved ones," he said.

The Emergency Service of Ukraine said that two people, born in 2005 and 1981, were injured in the Russian attack on the Bucha district of the Kyiv region and were receiving medical assistance.

The emergency service posted several photos and video on Telegram of firefighters battling flames at night in what appeared to be residential buildings and garages.

Throughout the night, Reuters witnesses said they heard blasts in and around Kyiv and what sounded like air defence systems in operation.

Kyiv, the region surrounding it and the eastern half of Ukraine were under air raid alerts for several hours on Tuesday, according to Ukraine's air force data.

There was no immediate comment from Russia.

Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war, which Russia started three years ago in February 2022. But thousands of civilians have been killed in the conflict, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.

More from International News

  • Israeli attacks on Gaza killed 60 people in 24 hours

    Israeli occupation forces committed multiple massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, resulting in the killing of at least 60 Palestinians and the injury of 162 others, according to medical reports.

  • Trump fires National Security Agency director

    U.S. President Donald Trump fired General Timothy Haugh as director of the National Security Agency on Thursday, according to two officials familiar with the decision, and congressional Democrats denounced the removal of the nonpartisan official from a top security post.

  • Israel steps up Syria strikes, says Turkey aims for 'protectorate'

    Israel stepped up airstrikes on Syria, declaring the attacks a warning to the new rulers in Damascus as it accused their ally Turkey of trying to turn the country into a Turkish protectorate.

  • US sending Israel 20,000 assault rifles that Biden delayed

    The Trump administration moved forward with the sale of more than 20,000 US-made assault rifles to Israel last month, according to a document seen by Reuters, pushing ahead with a sale that the administration of former president Joe Biden had delayed.

Blogs