The Ukrainian military said on Sunday that Russia’s overnight drone attack on Kyiv damaged several residential buildings and set cars on fire throughout the city.
Head of Kyiv’s military administration, Timur Tkachenko, said on social media that falling debris from destroyed drones sparked fires at residential buildings in Kyiv’s Obolonskyi and Sviatoshynskyi districts.
Tkachenko further stated that several cars throughout the city also caught fire from falling drone debris.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app that medics were called to the Sviatoshynskyi district, west of the city centre, where they provided assistance.
There was no immediate information on the full-scale of the attack at the time of filing this report.
Kyiv, its surrounding region and the eastern half of Ukraine were reportedly under air-raid alerts for about an hour, starting soon after midnight on Sunday local time (2100 GMT).
At press time, there was no immediate comment from Moscow about the attack that took place amidst uncertainty over whether both sides will stop war activities during Moscow’s May 8-10 commemorations of the victory of the Soviet Union and its allies in World War Two.
Russia on Monday declared a three-day ceasefire for May 8-10, to which Kyiv responded with a proposal to stop war activities for 30 days.
Meanwhile, both Russia and Ukraine denied targeting civilians in the war that Russia started more than three years ago with a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
According to the governor of the central Ukrainian region of Cherkasy, Ihor Taburets, a Russian drone attack on the region late on Saturday sparked several fires.
He said on Telegram that preliminary information revealed that there were no injuries.
