3 injured, dozens evacuated after Russian drone damages Kyiv medical facility in overnight attack
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Three people were injured, and 30 were evacuated, after debris from a drone ignited a fire at a medical facility in Kyiv during an overnight Russian attack on Nov. 13.
A downed drone caused a fire at a medical facility in the capital's Shevchenkivskyi district at around 5 a.m. local time, partially destroying its second floor, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service. Seven people in the facility had to be rescued by first responders.
Across Ukraine, multiple cities were targeted by Russian forces over night on Nov. 12-13, almost two days after trilateral peace talks in Abu Dhabi concluded. On Nov. 12, Russian attacks killed 10 people and injured 40 others across Ukraine as Russia targeted power grids, warehouses, and agricultural facilities in Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, and Zhytomyr oblasts.
For months, Russian forces have increased attacks on Kyiv, a city around the same size as Berlin, leading to mass blackouts and power outages. Russia has hammered Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with frequent attacks on energy and transportation infrastructure since the onset of the heating season.
Following a brief return to operational capacity, Ukraine's military is once again experiencing significant disruptions to the Starshield satellite communications system, the militarized version of Starlink, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Nov. 12.
Restrictions limit Starshield's operating speed to 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour), Zelensky wrote on X following briefings by Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara and Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Mykhailo Drapatyi.
The limitations are making it significantly harder for Ukrainian forces to intercept Russian jet-powered drones, Zelensky said, adding that some Russian strikes had already succeeded because Ukrainian interceptor systems could not reach the necessary speed to catch the targets in time.
