Tracers are seen within the night time sky as Ukrainian servicemen fireplace on the drone throughout a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine in Kyiv on Wednesday (October 30, 2024).
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Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 62 drones in a single day, however air defence items destroyed 33 of them over Kyiv and different areas, though 25 have been unaccounted for.

“9 individuals have been injured, a number of residences have been set ablaze and a kindergarten was broken in Russia’s nineteenth assault on the Ukrainian capital this month,” officers in Kyiv mentioned on Wednesday (October 30, 2024).

“Nineteen air assaults on Kyiv in October!” Serhiy Popko, the pinnacle of Kyiv’s navy administration, mentioned on the Telegram messaging app. “In a single day, Russian drones once more flew over the capital.”

A view exhibits an condominium constructing broken by a Russian drone strike amid Russia’s assault on Ukraine in Kyiv on Wednesday (October 30, 2024).
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“Falling particles from a destroyed drone sparked a hearth in a multi-storey condominium constructing in Kyiv’s western district of Solomianskyi and injured at the least 9 individuals, together with an 11-year-old lady,” Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned on Telegram.

“All of them have been handled by medics on the spot,” Mr. Klitschko mentioned.

Nineteen individuals have been evacuated from the constructing, mentioned the town’s navy administration, which additionally posted images of a constructing with blown-out home windows and broken facade that it described as a kindergarten in Solomianskyi.

Reuters witnesses on the scene noticed firefighters scrambling to douse flames at flats in an condominium constructing with a number of home windows blown out.

Air raid alerts sounded throughout Kyiv, the encircling area and almost the entire jap half of Ukraine for greater than two hours in a single day.