Drones have also damaged a residential building in new attacks on Kyiv. Several people were apparently buried under the rubble. Selenskyj condemned the attacks and assured: Russia's attacks "will not be able to break us".
According to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, 18 people have been rescued from a hit residential building after several drone attacks in the center of Kiev. According to preliminary information, two residents were still buried, Klitschko wrote on Telegram. He could not yet provide any information on possible fatalities.
The air alert in Kyiv was lifted after more than three hours. The city administration called on people to continue to be careful and to go to shelters immediately in the event of another alarm. Railway chief Olexander Kamyshin reported on Twitter that there had been an impact not far from the main train station. But there were no victims, he wrote. Photos of damaged and burning buildings were published on social networks.
After the new attacks on Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskyj called on the people of Ukraine to hold on. "All night and all morning the enemy is terrorizing the civilian population. All of Ukraine is being attacked with kamikaze drones and rockets," Zelenskyy wrote on the online networks. "The enemy can attack our cities, but they won't be able to break us," he assured.
Exactly one week after heavy Russian air raids, the Ukrainian capital was rocked again by several explosions. According to the Ukrainian government, Kyiv was attacked with kamikaze drones. According to Klitschko, the drone attack sparked a fire and damaged several residential buildings in the downtown Shevchenkivskyi district.
In addition to Kyiv, there were also reports of Russian attacks from the Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk and Odessa regions. Russian military bloggers close to the Kremlin reported that the country's energy infrastructure in particular had been shelled.
