Published December 22,2023
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Ukraine stated Friday that it had downed 24 out of 28 Iranian-made drones launched by Russia in a single day as two Kyiv residents have been reported injured by a drone assault on a residential constructing.
“On the night of December 22, 2023, the Russian occupation forces attacked with 28 Shahed attack drones,” Ukraine’s air drive stated on social media.
“As a result of combat work, 24 ‘Shaheds’ were shot down,” the assertion stated.
Air raid sirens have been heard in Kyiv late Thursday and residents heard loud explosions. City corridor initially stated air defences have been in motion and known as on folks to remain in shelters.
Russian missiles and drones often goal the Ukrainian capital however are normally shot down by air defence techniques.
“A residential building in Kyiv hit by a Shahed,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of employees Andriy Yermak wrote on Telegram.
The assault additionally affected the town’s Solomianskyi district, Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated on Telegram, reporting “flames on the upper floors”.
One man was hospitalised, whereas one other particular person was handled on the scene, he stated.
Kyiv’s army administration printed pictures on social media of residence buildings with home windows blown out, saying particles from a downed drone had prompted the injury slightly than a strike.
Klitschko additionally stated particles from one other downed drone fell on a home within the Darnytskyi district within the east of the town.
In the Holosiivskyi district within the metropolis’s south, a bit of shrapnel from a downed drone fell on a high-rise constructing with out inflicting any casualties, the army administration stated on Telegram.
Source: www.anews.com.tr