Kyiv experienced a large-scale drone and missile attack early Friday morning, according to Ukrainian officials. The assault resulted in fires and scattered debris across several districts of the capital. Ukrainian authorities have reported at least three fatalities and 26 injuries as a result of the strikes.
Debris and fires caused damage to high-rise residential buildings, a school, a medical facility, and administrative buildings throughout the city, which has a population of approximately three million, officials stated.
“The Russians are targeting residential buildings. There are a significant number of damaged multi-story residential buildings, in almost every district,” wrote Tymur Tkachinko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, on Telegram. Tkachinko also noted damage to Kyiv’s heating system, with service disruptions in one district, and warned of potential electricity and water supply interruptions.
In Zaporizhzhia, the Ukrainian governor for the province reported four deaths resulting from heavy Russian shelling in the region.
Concurrently, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it had intercepted over 200 Ukrainian drones overnight. In a statement on Telegram, the Ministry claimed its air defense systems “intercepted and destroyed 216 Ukrainian drones, including 66 over the Krasnodar region and 45 over Saratov in southern Russia.”
Russian officials reported that drone strikes caused damage to a ship, residential buildings, and an oil depot in the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. They added that the attack injured three crew members. The injured crew are receiving hospital treatment, according to the Krasnodar region’s operational command on Telegram. Drone fragments reportedly struck at least four apartments, shattering windows, but causing no injuries.
The attack also ignited a fire at an oil depot within a shipping complex, which was extinguished by emergency teams. Coastal buildings also sustained damage, the operational command reported, without providing further details. Russia continues its offensive.
