Russian drone barrage on Kyiv kills 4, injures 19, disrupts electricity, water supplies
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Russian drone strikes on Oct. 8 have killed four people and injured at least 19 in Kyiv, the city's authorities said.
A Russian drone struck a four-story commercial building in Solomyanskyi district, killing two and injuring two, and leading to a fire, while the wreckage of another fell on the Holosiivskyi district, Klitschko said.
Prior to that strike, Klitschko said that Russian attacks on the capital this morning had killed one person and injured 11 others.
A fourth person died of their injuries in hospital, the Kyiv city military administration (KMDA) said in the afternoon.
Klitschko raised the number of injured to 19, 13 of which were hospitalized, in an update on 07:21 p.m. local time.
At 10:00 a.m. local time, Ukraine’s biggest private energy firm DTEK announced emergency energy shutdowns in Brovary, Buchanskyi, Vyshgorod, and Boryspil districts of the oblast.
Shortly after, KMDA announced that the right bank of Kyiv may experience interruptions in water supply, as the power decrease in the electricity grid also meant a decrease in pressure of the water supply network. This applied especially to the Holosiivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, Solomyanskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts.
The drop in voltage from external power supply centers also temporarily halted Kyiv Metro train services and escalator operations, the KMDA said.
DSNS also said that a fire broke out at a logistics facility in the Buchanskyi district in Kyiv Oblast following a Russian drone strike.
In Sviatopetrivske in Buchanskyi district, a school-kindergarten and a nearby playground in a residential complex were damaged in the attack, Kyiv Oblast Governor Tymur Tkachenko said. In another settlement in the district, a woman was injured and hospitalized, he added.
Overnight, Russian drone strikes on Kyiv had already killed four people and injured 21 across four districts, KMDA said.
In Solomyanskyi district, a UAV fell on the roof of a 5-storey residential building, causing a fire, while elsewhere in the district falling debris injured one person.
In Desnyanskyi district, falling drone debris also caused a fire in a 12-storey residential building.
At the time of writing, Klitschko said there had been a further strike on Shevchenko district, emergency services were dispatched.
Russia attacked across Ukraine with 142 Shahed-type drones, 82 of them jet-powered, on the night of Oct. 8, Ukraine's air force said. The Air Force said that air defense shot down or suppressed 126 of these drones.
