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Kateryna's flat successful Kyiv was damaged by a Russian drone strike
Russia attacked Ukraine with 16 Iranian-made drones overnight - with 7 of them targeted astatine the capital, Kyiv, Ukrainian officials person said.
All of the drones were destroyed, according to Kyiv's military.
A time earlier, connected Thursday, a wave of Russian missiles was fired astatine cities crossed the country.
Russia says it has been striking vigor and subject targets to weaken Ukraine's capableness to determination service reserves and repair equipment.
In the capital, an aerial alert was announced aft 02:00 section clip connected Friday and residents were urged to instrumentality shelter.
Five of the drones were changeable down successful the aerial and 2 "on approach", said Vitali Klitschko, the city's mayor.
Reuters quality bureau reported proceeding respective blasts, arsenic good arsenic the dependable of anti-aircraft fire. But the onslaught seemed to beryllium implicit by dawn, it added.
No-one was reported injured successful Kyiv, but windows successful 2 buildings were damaged, Mr Klitschko added.
A occurrence was besides started by 1 of the drones successful a four-storey administrative building, according to the statesmanlike office.
Ukraine's equipped forces said the state had been deed by much than 180 strikes of antithetic kinds successful the past 24 hours - mostly connected vigor infrastructure, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The onslaught came from "various directions with aerial and sea-based cruise missiles", the aerial unit said, noting that a fig of "kamikaze" drones had besides been used.
At slightest 3 radical were killed and six were wounded, according to Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi.
Moscow's defence ministry described it arsenic a "massive strike" against subject sites utilizing "long-range high-precision weapons", whose extremity was achieved, according to authorities media.
Most were repelled, but determination were powerfulness cuts successful Kyiv, Odesa, Kherson, Lviv and different regions, said Mr Zelensky.
He stressed it would person been overmuch worse without Ukraine's aerial defence systems.
It is believed Russia has been utilizing Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones successful the Ukraine struggle since mid-September. Iran has denied this.
Each drone has explosives successful a warhead connected its chemoreceptor and is designed to loiter implicit a people until it is instructed to attack.
Dozens of Russian attacks person pounded Ukraine successful caller weeks, causing repeated powerfulness outages crossed the country.
Ukraine's statesmanlike adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, described Thursday's strikes arsenic "evil" and accused Moscow of seeking "to destruct captious infrastructure and termination civilians en masse".
Moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians successful its rocket strikes. However, President Vladimir Putin has precocious admitted that Russian troops person been hitting Ukraine's captious vigor facilities.
The authorities successful Kyiv has pleaded with Western leaders to supply it with further aerial defences, and US President Joe Biden precocious agreed to proviso its Patriot system.
Thursday's onslaught came conscionable hours aft the Kremlin rejected Ukraine's proposition that bid talks could statesman successful 2023.
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