Officials say 11 Iranian-made drones shot down as air raid sirens sound in capital city and surrounding area
A total of 11 Iran-supplied drones were shot down overand the surrounding region early on Wednesday in what Ukrainian authorities described as a continuation of Russia’s “energy terror” against the country.
Kyiv’s city administration said that two of its administrative buildings had been damaged by the falling debris of a drone. There were no victims from the drone debris, the spokesperson for Kyiv’s rescue services, Svitlana Vodolaga, told Ukraine’s Suspline news. The city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, wrote in a post on Telegram that there were blasts in the central district of the capital, Shevchenkivskyi, which is home to many government agencies and buildings, and that 10 Iranian-made drones had been shot down. City authorities said an 11th drone was later shot down just after 8am.
Several this morning in Kyiv’s central Shevchenkivskyi district. It’s not clear what’s been hit. The sound of a drone can be heard in one video posted to Trukha Kyiv. Kyiv’s mayor Vitaliy Klitschko says emergency services are on the scene
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