Two male security guards, aged 26 and 36, working the night shift at a company in Kiev, died early this morning. Fragments of Russian shells shot down by Ukrainian air defense struckAs reported in a statement by the capital’s Military Administration.
According to the source, in Russia’s biggest attack on Kiev since last spring, the Ukrainian Air Force intercepted more than twenty enemy shells over the capital’s skies. At least three people were injured As a result of falling pieces, damage occurred in various parts of the city.
“The enemy threw a massive combined attack using drones and missiles“, explained Serguí Popko, head of the Kyiv Military Administration. Minutes after 5 am local time (2.00 GMT), numerous explosions were heard in the center of the Ukrainian capital.
Russian forces, as Popko explains they launched the attack in two phases last night. The first consisted of a wave Iranian-designed Shahed’s kamikaze drones shot in several groups from various directions. Immediately after missiles were firedLaunched from the Tu-95 strategic fighter.
In the Shevchenko district and Darnetsia district, where two victims died, many buildings were damaged by bullet fragments and fires occurred in some affected areas.