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Russia's drone attack damages children's medical center in Kyiv, injuries reported

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Russia's drone attack damages children's medical center in Kyiv, injuries reported
Russian forces launched attack drones targeting Kyiv in the evening of Nov. 28. A children's medical center was damaged in the attack. (State Emergency Service / Telegram) 

Editor's Note: This is a developing story and is being updated.

Russian forces launched attack drones targeting Kyiv, among other regions, on the evening of Nov. 28. Air defense systems shot down the drones, but debris caused structural damage in several areas of the city, according to officials.

Several explosions were heard in different parts of the capital overnight on Nov. 29.

In the Dniprovskyi district, drone debris caused a fire on the facade of a children's medical center. The blaze, which damaged the building's exterior, shattered windows and uprooted nearby trees, was later extinguished. A security guard was injured by the falling wreckage, according to the mayor.

In the Sviatoshynskyi district, drone debris struck an infrastructure facility, Klitschko reported. Officials did not provide other details at the time of the publication.

Klitschko urged residents to remain in shelters, while air defense operations were still active as of 1 a.m. local time.

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Olena Goncharova

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Olena Goncharova is the Head of North America desk at The Kyiv Independent, where she has previously worked as a development manager and Canadian correspondent. She first joined the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper, as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper’s Canadian correspondent in June 2018. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Olena has a master’s degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months. The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia.

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