A Russian drone attacked a multi-story residential constructing within the Ukrainian capital, kyiv, on Friday night time, inflicting a hearth on the higher flooring and killing one individual and injuring 5, authorities mentioned.
Serhiy Popko, head of the capital’s navy administration, mentioned greater than 100 residents had been evacuated from the skyscraper within the Solomyanskyi district, simply west of the town heart.
The air protection models had been in motion through the air assault alert that lasted one hour and two hours later a brand new alert was declared within the metropolis as a result of arrival of drones.
“Flats from the seventeenth to the twenty first ground had been broken within the residence constructing within the Solomyanskyi district,” Popko wrote on the Telegram messaging app. “Flats on the twentieth ground caught fireplace.”
Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned a teenage woman had died. One of many 5 injured is being handled within the hospital and a primary support tent has been arrange on the scene.
Emergency providers mentioned the hearth was now underneath management. Pictures and movies posted on their web site confirmed firefighters utilizing lengthy hoists to combat the blaze.
Popko additionally mentioned that drone fragments had fallen in an open house within the central Shevchenkivskyi district. No victims had been reported.
