At least 1 killed, 7 injured in 3rd Russian airstrike on Ukraine's capital Kyiv in past day

By Burc Eruygur

ISTANBUL (AA) — At least one person was killed and seven others injured on Tuesday in a third Russian air attack on Ukraine's capital Kyiv over the past day.

"In the last 24 hours, the enemy has already carried out three attacks. Moreover, the enemy is constantly changing weapons for attack, after the combined missile-drone, and then ballistic, the aggressor used exclusively UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles)," Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, said in a statement on Telegram.

Popko said the most recent attacks were the 17th conducted by Russia this month, further noting that the air raid alert sounded in the city and lasted for three hours.

"A total of 31 unmanned aerial vehicles were launched from the north and south across Ukraine. The forces and means of the Air Force, in cooperation with the air defense of other components of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, destroyed 29 drones," Popko claimed.

Popko also said that almost all of the drones were destroyed on the outskirts of the city and over Kyiv, added that falling debris from the drones caused damage to residential and non-residential buildings and cars.

"One person died, seven were injured of with varying degrees of severity. All, except for one person, were recorded in the Holosiivskyi district of the city, where the debris hit a multi-story building," Popko said.

Two large-scale attacks hit the country, including one in the capital Kyiv​​​​​​, Ukrainian authorities had announced on Monday.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an evening address that most of drones and missiles used in the attacks were shot down.

"Shaheds (Iranian-made unmanned suicide aerial vehicles), cruise missiles, ballistic missiles. Guided bombs. Thanks to our air defense, to all the defenders of the sky, at least hundreds of lives were saved today," Zelenskyy added.

The Russia-Ukraine war, now in its 15th month, has killed 8,895 civilians and wounded 15,117, according to the latest UN figures.