KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital with a barrage of drones and missiles early Saturday morning, leaving at least four people dead.
Russia launched 39 Shahed drones, other simulator drones and four ballistic missiles according to the Air Force of Ukraine. Ukrainian air defense forces shot down two missiles and 24 drones. Another 14 drone simulators were lost in the area, the statement said.
The four were killed after a missile that fell over the Shevchenkivskyi district, said the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration Timur Tkachenko. Debris was also falling in the Desnyansky area, he said.
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Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said in Shevchenkivskyi district that the windows were broken and there was smoke at the entrance of a residential building, adding that a water supply pipeline was also damaged.
AP journalists at the scene saw a man lying dead in the rubble in a pool of blood. Water flooded the streets as firefighters put out the fire.
Klitschko also said that the Lukyanivska metro station was closed after the attacks damaged its glass entrance.
Drones and missiles were shot down across Ukraine, in Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson and Donetsk regions.
