Russia on Saturday launched its largest drone attack against Ukraine\u2019s capital of Kyiv since the start of its invasion, according to local officials. <\/p>\n
\u201cA total of nearly 75 Shahed drones were launched from two directions \u2013 Primorsko-Akhtarsk and the Kursk region, Russia.\u00a0The primary target was the city of Kyiv,\u201d said Ukraine\u2019s Air Force in a Telegram post, describing the attack as a \u201crecord number\u201d of drones. <\/p>\n
It said air defenses intercepted 71 of the Iranian-made drones across six regions of Ukraine \u2013 but the vast majority of the drones were intercepted in the Kyiv region. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnti-aircraft missile troops, tactical aviation, mobile fire groups, and electronic warfare units were involved in repelling the air attack,\u201d said the air force. It added that a Kh-59 guided missile was also destroyed in the Dnipropetrovsk region. <\/p>\n
Mykhailo Shamanov, a spokesman for the Kyiv city military administration, described several waves of drones coming from different directions toward the capital. <\/p>\n
It was the fourth drone attack on Kyiv this month, according to Shamanov. <\/p>\n
At least two people were injured in Kyiv\u2019s Solomianskyi district, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko. <\/p>\n
Several locations in Solomianskyi district caught fire, including a residential building and other non-residential premises, Klitschko said. <\/p>\n
He added that the second floor of a five-story residential building in Solomianskyi district was damaged, and that the wreckage of downed drones fell on two residential buildings \u2013 one in the Dniprovskyi district, the other in the Holosiivskyi district. <\/p>\n
In a separate statement, Serhii Popko, the head of the Kyiv city military administration, said a fire had broken out on the premises of a kindergarten after a drone was downed in the Solomianskyi district. <\/p>\n
Last winter, Russia carried out a sustained campaign of missile and drone attacks to cripple Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure. <\/p>\n
The country\u2019s energy ministry said this recent attack on Kyiv cut off power to an overhead line, leaving 77 residential buildings and 120 establishments without power in the city center. <\/p>\n
Khmelnytskyi, in western Ukraine, has become a regular target of attacks, with the shockwaves from explosions damaging infrastructure in the region, including its nuclear power plant. <\/p>\n
\u201cPowerful explosions\u201d shook the area near the Khmelnytskyi\u00a0Nuclear Power Plant last month, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said, with shockwaves shattering windows and temporarily cutting off power to some off-site radiation monitoring stations. IAEA experts at the plant were also told that two drones were shot down in close proximity to the site. <\/p>\n
The IAEA said that the incident \u201conce again highlighted the dangers to nuclear safety and security during the ongoing military conflict.\u201d <\/p>\n
While concerns remain about the country\u2019s energy this winter, Ukraine\u2019s largest private energy company DTEK has spent the last seven months restoring infrastructure, trying to boost output\u00a0and bolster\u00a0defenses at its facilities. <\/p>\n
According to deputy chief of Ukraine\u2019s Defense Intelligence, Vadym Skibitsky, attacks to the country\u2019s energy grid will be harder for Russia to pull off this time around. <\/p>\n
Citizens have also been preparing for the possibility of a downed power grid. One company that installs energy storage systems nationally, has seen a significant rise in demand as people seek off-the-grid solutions, while businesses and companies buy generators and secondary batteries. <\/p>\n\n
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