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ABC News HomepageRussia has launched nearly three dozen drones at Kyiv early on Sunday, with blasts ringing out across the Ukrainian capital and the surrounding region for around two hours and debris falling across several city districts, Ukrainian officials have said.
Key points:
- At least four people were injured, Kyiv officials said
- Ukraine's air force said the military destroyed 26 out of 33 Russian drones
- Moscow has conducted regular air strikes on Ukrainian population centres far from the front lines
The night sky was illuminated by explosions from air defences engaging targets and blasts were heard throughout the city.
At least one plume of smoke was spotted rising from in between buildings.
Kyiv resident Liudmyla said she heard the buzzing of the Iranian-made drones before a blast wave shattered windows in her building and the jars on her windowsill.
"It was a very frightening experience — I can't even put it into words."
The state emergency service reported that debris had fallen in three different districts, but there was no serious damage.
Kyiv officials also said four people were injured.
In a Facebook post, regional Governor Ruslan Kravchenko said that the drones damaged an infrastructure facility as well as civilian buildings including homes and stores, a hospital, a rehabilitation centre, a school and a kindergarten.
Ukraine's air force said the military destroyed 26 out of 33 drones launched by Russia, all of which targeted Kyiv and the region around it.
There was no immediate comment from Russia about the attacks.
Moscow has conducted regular air strikes on Ukrainian population centres far from the eastern and southern front lines of its 18-month-old invasion.
A Russian attack killed 17 people on Wednesday in the eastern city of Kostiantynivka, Ukrainian officials said.
Two aid workers killed in Ukraine
Two aid workers, one Canadian and one Spanish, were killed in east Ukraine, said Kyiv on Sunday, blaming Russian forces and calling their deaths near war-ravaged Bakhmut "a painful, irreparable loss".
The Defence Ministry said Moscow's troops had killed Emma Igual, a Spanish citizen who studied at the University of California at Berkeley, and Anthony Ihnat, a Canadian citizen both working for the NGO Road to Relief.
It said in a statement that two volunteers working for the aid group had been injured in the incident in the eastern Donetsk region.
The industrial region has suffered the worst of the fighting of Russia's invasion launched last February and Moscow claimed to have annexed the territory last year.
Kyiv said the aid workers had dedicated themselves to limiting the harm to civilians caught in the conflict, including by carrying out evacuations and distributing humanitarian relief.
Road to Relief said in a post on its Instagram account that the vehicle the four aid workers were travelling in "came under Russian attack" in Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine on Saturday morning.
In "a direct hit, the vehicle flipped over and (caught) fire," it said.
The aid workers had left from Slovyansk and were headed to Bakhmut to assess the needs of civilians "caught in crossfire" in the town of Ivanivske.
"All necessary information is currently being gathered, and we are cooperating with both military and police to resolve all matters of concern," the NGO said.
Reuters/AFP
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