Russia targets Kyiv in hours-long drone attack

KYIV, Ukraine — 

Russia unleashed an overnight drone onslaught connected the Ukrainian superior Kyiv that lasted into precocious greeting and wounded astatine slightest 1 person, metropolis officials said connected Saturday.

Debris from downed drones struck six metropolis districts, wounding a constabulary officer, damaging residential buildings and starting fires, according to metropolis subject head Serhiy Popko.

Mayor Vitalii Klitschko had earlier reported that 2 radical had been injured.

"Another night. Another air-raid alert. Another drone attack. The equipped forces of the Russian Federation attacked Kyiv again according to their aged and acquainted tactics," Popko wrote connected societal media.

He said each the drones aimed astatine Kyiv had been changeable down, but warned that others presently located successful airspace extracurricular the metropolis could crook toward the capital.

Reuters correspondents reported proceeding explosions successful and astir the metropolis during an air-raid alert that lasted much than 5 hours.

Russia has carried retired regular airstrikes connected Ukrainian towns and cities down the beforehand lines of the warfare which began erstwhile Russia invaded its neighbour successful February 2022.

Kyiv's subject said connected Friday that Moscow's forces had launched much than 2,000 drones astatine civilian and subject targets crossed Ukraine successful October alone.

Russia has denied aiming astatine civilians and said powerfulness facilities are morganatic targets erstwhile they are portion of Ukrainian subject infrastructure.