Russian kamikaze drones struck central Kyiv on Monday morning, appearing to target a downtown power station — continuing a trend of striking Ukrainian critical infrastructure.
The first explosions this Monday started at 6:45 a.m. People could hear the loud buzzing sound of the Iranian-made Shahed drones — what Ukrainians have coined a “flying moped” — that Russia has been using. The second wave came about 90 minutes later.As a second wave of drones swooped in around 8:30 a.m., law enforcement on the scene opened fire with their guns. They managed to shoot one down, according to Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry.
“All night and all morning, the enemy terrorizes the civilian population,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday in a. “Kamikaze drones and missiles are attacking all of Ukraine. A residential building was hit in Kyiv. The enemy can attack our cities, but it won’t be able to break us.” Russia hit Kyiv with kamikaze drones on Oct. 17, a week after it carried out deadly attacks across Ukraine.
Gerashchenko said the drones were targeting energy infrastructure and that they were Iranian kamikazes. Pentagon officials have publicly confirmed the use of Iranian drones in Russian airstrikes, as well as Ukraine’s success in shooting some of the drones down.Yuriy Ignat, a spokesperson for the Air Force Command of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, said Ukrainian forces destroyed 26 Shahed drones between Sunday evening and Monday morning — including 15 just between 3:30 and 7 a.m.
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