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Editor's note: This is a developing story and is being updated.
At least eight people were injured as multiple waves of explosions rocked Kyiv overnight on May 24 during a massive Russian drone and missile attack.
Two people were injured in the Dniprovskyi district, other wounded were treated in the Sviatoshynskyi and Obolonskyi districts, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported. In the Solomianskyi district, four people suffered acute reaction to stress. At least two of the injured were hospitalized.
Since the start of its full-scale invasion, Russia has routinely used missiles and drones to strike Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure.
The first explosions in Kyiv were reported around 10 p.m. on May 23, the same day Ukraine and Russia began their largest prisoner exchange, with 390 Ukrainians returned that day, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Drone debris then fell in the Holosiivskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, and Sviatoshynskyi districts, according to Kyiv city officials. Air defense has been active in the capital, Klitschko said in a post to Telegram.
Another wave of explosions was heard at around 1 a.m. local time. Ukraine's Air Force earlier warned there is a threat of ballistic missile and drone strikes against several regions.
Later in the night, missile debris was reported in the Obolonskyi district, while in the Solomianskyi district, drone fragments struck a residential building causing a fire. A non-residential building caught fire in the Sviatoshynskyi district following the attack.
Meanwhile, a 54-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman were injured in a Russian drone attack on Kyiv Oblast’s Brovary district late on May 23, local authorities reported. Both sustained shrapnel wounds to the thigh and were hospitalized.
Daria Shulzhenko
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