Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN) — Russia on Saturday launched its largest drone attack against Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv since the start of its invasion, according to local officials.
More than 40 drones were intercepted, with several waves of drones coming from different directions, Mykhailo Shamanov, a spokesman for the Kyiv city military administration, said in an interview on national television.
Ukraine’s Air Force described it as a “record number of Shahed-131/136 type (drones),” saying the capital was the main target.
A CNN producer in Kyiv heard loud explosions and repeated bangs as drones buzzed overhead. The city’s military administration warned residents to take cover, saying: “A large number of enemy UAVs are entering Kyiv from different directions! We urge you to stay in shelters until the alarm goes off!”
It was the fourth drone attack on Kyiv this month, according to Shamanov.
At least two people were injured in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko.
Several locations in Solomianskyi district caught fire, including a residential building and other non-residential premises, Klitschko said.
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 – one in the Dniprovskyi district, the other in the Holosiivskyi district.
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.
The country’s Energy Ministry said the attack cut off power to an overhead line, leaving 77 residential buildings and 120 establishments without power in the city center.
