(Reuters) – The city of Kyiv came under a mass Russian drone attack early on Friday, with Mayor Vitali Klitschko and other officials reporting strikes on widely separated residential districts.
Klitschko said a drone had hit a block of flats in the Solomyanskyi district, south of the city centre, triggering a fire.
“The upper floors are in flames. Emergency crews are on site,” Mayor Klitschko said.
A video posted on social media showed a giant orange flame going skyward in the night.
Klitschko also reported a drone strike on a private house in Darnytskyi district on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River that runs through the city. One person was injured and emergency crews were on their way to the scene.
Serhiy Popko, head of Kyiv’s military administration, reported fragments from a downed drone had struck an apartment building in a third area — Holosiivskyi district — also south of the city centre.
Popko posted pictures showing smashed windows and heavy damage to apartments.
(Reporting by Serhiy Karazy, Valentyn Ogirenko and Pavel Polityuk, Writing by Ron Popeski; Editing by Leslie Adler and Alistair Bell)
