One useless in drone assaults on Kyiv: Mayor

By Reuters: Ukrainian anti-aircraft models engaged in attacking drones for the third consecutive evening in and round Kyiv on Thursday, triggering fires and falling particles in a number of districts and killing at the very least one individual, officers mentioned.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko, writing on Telegram, mentioned the physique of 1 resident was recovered when emergency companies put out a fireplace within the capital’s historic Podil district.

With explosions resounding within the capital and different regional centres greater than 500 days into Russia’s invasion, navy officers mentioned Ukrainian forces have been making progress with their counter offensive on entrance traces within the east and south.

These included good points close to the shattered metropolis of Bakhmut, captured by Russian forces in May after months of battles.

In Kyiv, Klitschko reported a fireplace in an house constructing in Podil and mentioned two folks have been injured when particles broken one storey of an house constructing in Darnytskyi district within the east of the town.

Two extra folks have been injured in Shevchenkivskyi district additional west, the place a balcony caught fireplace in an house constructing. Debris additionally struck the central Solomyanskyi district.

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The head of Kyiv’s navy administration, Serhiy Popko, described the assault as a “mass attack” by Iranian-made Shahed drones that had approached from totally different instructions.

“Anti-aircraft forces identified and destroyed about 10 foreign targets,” Popko wrote on Telegram.

Pictures on the navy administration’s web site confirmed buildings with burnt out areas or broken facades.

The three days of assaults coincided with a NATO summit in Lithuania praised by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for offering Ukraine with “a foundation of security” for the primary time since independence. He had earlier expressed a measure of frustration that no timetable was given for securing NATO membership.

Twenty-four hours earlier, Ukraine shot down 11 of 15 Iranian-made drones fired by Russia and two folks have been damage in a fireplace brought on by the assault on Kyiv. An aged man was killed within the shelling of the southern metropolis of Kherson.

On the entrance line, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar reported on Telegram: “In the Bakhmut sector, we attacked today on the southern flank around Bakhmut. There is an advance. Our defenders are digging in at their established positions.”

Maliar mentioned Ukrainian forces had contained tried Russian advances on cities to the north and west. In the south, they “pressed on with offensive operations” in the direction of the Sea of Azov.

“In the past week, our defenders in the south have significantly undermined the enemy’s attacking and defensive capabilities,” she wrote.

Reuters was unable to confirm battlefield developments.

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In its account of the entrance line, the Russian Defence Ministry mentioned its forces had repelled 30 Ukrainian assaults prior to now 24 hours in areas spanning Donetsk and Luhansk areas.

It listed one of many websites of its profitable operations as Klishchiivka, a village occupying heights outdoors Bakhmut.

Ukraine mentioned this week its forces had management of elevated positions, permitting for direct strikes on the town of Bakhmut.