Russia targets Kyiv with drones, killing three and wounding at least 30

Russia targeted Ukraine’s capital with drones, killing three people in their homes, authorities said yesterday.

At least 30 people were wounded, seven of them children, in the second consecutive nighttime attack on Kyiv to claim civilian lives. Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said a 19-year-old woman and her 46-year-old mother were among those killed.

Russian drones caused fires in two residential buildings in the capital’s Desnianskyi district. Emergency crews evacuated civilians from a nine-story and a 16-story building, put out flames and cleared the rubble.

Ihor Motchanyi, a soccer player at a local club, had just celebrated his 25th birthday the previouus day. He said the attack felt like a second birthday, so narrowly did he escape death.

“I was asleep today, but the alarm went off and literally a couple of minutes later, a Shahed drone flew into the next room. I miraculously survived, my parents miraculously survived, so to speak, the apartment is gone, but the main thing is that we are safe and sound,” he said.