Central Kiev hit by ‘kamikaze’ drones – reports

Several explosions rocked central Kiev on Monday morning, the city’s mayor Vitaly Klitschko has confirmed, amid reports of a new wave of drone strikes exactly a week after Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine’s critical energy and other military infrastructure.

“An explosion in the Shevchenko district – in the center of the capital,” Klitschko wrote on his Telegram channel around 7am Monday morning, before reporting another blast in the same area several minutes later. A fire broke out in a non-residential building, and several residential buildings were damaged, he later added.

Witnesses reportedly heard the sound of ‘kamikaze’ drones in the air, according to Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the interior minister, who said that they targeted “critical infrastructure” in the area of the central railway station in Kiev.

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