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Russian drones attack Kyiv

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Russian forces targeted Kyiv Oblast with Iranian-made drones around 2:20 a.m. local time on Aug. 2, Serhii Popko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration reported on Telegram.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko later announced that debris from a drone reportedly fell in the Solomyan district, damaging a non-residential building, and Kyiv's Sviatoshynskyi district. Emergency services were dispatched to the scene. An explosion was also reported in the Holosiivskyi district.

No casulaties have been reported.

An air raid alert was declared in a number of central and northern regions, as well as in Odesa.

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Rachel Amran is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. She previously worked on the Europe and Central Asia team of Human Rights Watch investigating war crimes in Ukraine. Rachel holds a master's degree in Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Regional Studies from Columbia University.

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