LONDON — At the least six individuals, together with a pregnant girl, had been injured in Kyiv as Russia launched greater than 100 drones in an in a single day strike into New 12 months’s Day, Ukraine army and civil officers mentioned.
Ukraine’s air pressure mentioned at the least 111 assault drones had been launched towards at the least 10 areas all through Ukraine, together with the capital. Ukraine shot down 63 of the drones and one other 46 did not strike a goal, the army mentioned.
“The air assault was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, digital warfare models, cellular hearth teams of the Air Power and the Protection Forces of Ukraine,” the air pressure mentioned.
On this picture supplied by the Ukrainian Emergency Providers on Jan. 1, 2025, a residential constructing is seen broken by a Russian drone strike within the metropolis heart of Kyiv, Ukraine.
Ukrainian Emergency Service/AP
Air raid sirens started blaring earlier than dawn in Kyiv, urging individuals to make their solution to shelters, the Kyiv Metropolis State Administration mentioned. A lot of the injured had been in Kyiv’s central Pecherskyi neighborhood, the place the strike began a fireplace in an condominium constructing, Vitali Klitschko, Kyiv’s mayor, mentioned in a publish in Ukrainian on the Telegram messaging app.
Firefighters work at a website of a constructing broken throughout a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine, in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Jan. 1, 2025.
State Emergency Service of Ukraine through Reuters
“Two of them had been hospitalized. Two had been handled on the spot by docs,” Klitschko mentioned. A pregnant girl was among the many injured, town administration mentioned in a press release.
Falling particles additionally broke home windows, began a fireplace in a storage and broken trams within the western Sviatoshynskyi neighborhood, Klitschko added.
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