Kyiv under drone attack: four injured – photos
Russian drone attacks have continued in Kyiv on 27 August: four people have been injured in the Holosiivskyi district, and fires have broken out in the capital.
Source: Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko; Ukrainian Air Force; air-raid warnings map; Kyiv City Military Administration; Pavlo Petrov, spokesperson for the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Kyiv, in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda; State Emergency Service of Ukraine; Kyiv police
Update: As of 13:30, police reported that three people were injured in the Holosiivskyi district. Two men, aged 21 and 31, were hospitalised with shrapnel wounds. A 53-year-old woman was also injured.
Update: At 15:22, Klitschko reported that the number of people injured in the capital had risen to four. Two of them are currently receiving treatment in hospital.
In the Pecherskyi district, drone debris fell in a wooded area, setting grass and trees on fire. Firefighters extinguished the blaze.
Investigative teams and bomb disposal experts are working at the scenes.
Details: At 12:48, Klitschko reported that a Russian drone had crashed onto a road in the Holosiivskyi district, the central part of the capital. Early reports indicate that one person was injured.
He later said that drone debris had crashed on the roof of a two-storey non-residential building at a different location in the Holosiivskyi district, causing a fire. Emergency services are working at the scene.
This attack took place while an air-raid warning was in effect from 11:58 to 12:45.
In total, since the start of the day, an air-raid warning in Kyiv has been issued seven times as of 12:48.
Details: In the morning, during one of the Russian drone attacks, debris fell in the Holosiivskyi and Pecherskyi districts. In the Holosiivskyi district, a car was damaged and a lorry driver sustained injuries.
Klitschko clarified that the person injured in the Holosiivskyi district is a lorry driver. Medics treated him at the scene. The State Emergency Service reported that the man injured in the attack is 21.
Petrov also told Ukrainska Pravda he cannot confirm reports of damage to a sports complex in the Pecherskyi district, which the Kyiv City State Administration had previously reported.
Quote from Petrov: "As of now, we have had a fire in an open area of 20 sq m in the Pecherskyi district. It's already been extinguished. [...] Early reports indicate there has been no damage."
Details: The Kyiv City State Administration reported earlier that debris from downed aerial assets had landed on a non-residential area and damaged a sports facility in the Pecherskyi district. Videos showing smoke around the Lobanovskyi Stadium were also circulating on social media.
According to the air-raid warnings map, an air-raid warning was issued in Kyiv at 09:54, with the all-clear given at 11:08 – lasting one hour and 14 minutes. Later, the air-raid warning was issued several more times in the capital.
Background: Two educational institutions and a municipal medical facility have been damaged in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi district and debris from downed aerial assets has landed between residential buildings in the Podilskyi district as a result of the latest Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital.
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