KYIV (Reuters) -An overnight Russian drone attack on Kyiv wounded nine people and damaged buildings across the city, a senior official in the Ukrainian capital said on Thursday.
Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, said 10 city locations had suffered damage, with two apartment buildings taking direct hits. Photos he posted online showed a car flipped onto its side and buildings with shattered windows.
The capital came under fire for the second successive night in the latest wave of Russian attacks.
The previous strikes targeted power infrastructure, in what Ukrainian officials say is a campaign intended to destroy the energy system as winter approaches. It was not clear what the latest attack sought to hit.
At least seven people – six of them in Kyiv – were killed in attacks across Ukraine on Wednesday that also caused power outages, officials said.
Ukraine’s military said Russia had launched 130 drones in its latest attacks since Moscow began its full-scale invasion in February 2022, and that 92 had been shot down.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said it had struck Ukrainian energy infrastructure in response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian civilian targets. Moscow says Ukrainian energy facilities are a legitimate military target. Both sides deny targeting civilians.
Ukraine has also carried out drone attacks on Russia. In the latest such attacks, Russian officials said an energy facility in the Nizhny Novgorod region had suffered minor damage and an unidentified enterprise was set ablaze in the Ryazan region.
(Reporting by Max Hunder, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
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