Kyiv: In a nighttime attack that left one dead and at least four injured in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Ukraine announced on Thursday that it had shot down 20 Russian attack drones and two cruise missiles.
According to air force spokesman Yuriy Ignat, "We have a successful air defence operation." Twenty Shaheds were destroyed, and all of those in the air were shot down.
The 20 Iranian-made Shahed attack drones were destroyed "primarily in the Kyiv region," according to a separate Telegram statement from Ukraine's air force.
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Kyiv's military administration earlier claimed on Telegram that the drones "entered the capital from different directions" and that air defences had destroyed "about a dozen" of them in the city's airspace.
It added that there had been reports of falling debris in five city districts and that a 19-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man had been taken to the hospital with shrapnel wounds.
Sergiy Popko, the head of Kyiv's military administration, posted on Telegram that two people were hurt in the Darnytsky neighbourhood "as a result of falling debris." If they were the same two people was not immediately clear.
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According to Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko, emergency services were responding to calls in the Solomyansky, Shevchenkivsky, Podilsky, and Darnytsky districts after "explosions in the capital."
Firefighters found the "body of one dead person" in the Podilsky district, Klitschko wrote on Telegram.
Additionally, Klitschko claimed that two individuals had been "hospitalised" in the Darnytsky neighbourhood after falling debris caused damage to a home. It was unclear if they were the same two individuals the military administration had referred to.
According to Klitschko, two additional people in the Shevchenkivsky district received medical attention there.
He added that emergency services were on the scene and that fires had started in an apartment block in Shevchenkivsky and a non-residential structure in the Podilsky district.
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A room in a high-rise building had part of its wall blown out in a photo shared on Telegram by the military administration of Kiev, which the organisation claimed was the result of falling debris in the Darnytsky district.
Two Kalibr cruise missiles were also destroyed by Ukrainian air defences overnight, according to a Telegram post by the Ukrainian air force.
It claimed that a ballistic missile called an Iskander-M had also been fired from Crimea, a peninsula in the south that Russia annexed in 2014. Regarding the missile launch, it stated that information was "still being clarified."