Ukraine announced on Thursday that it had shot down 20 Russian drones and two cruise missiles on its capital Kiev for the third straight night.
“We successfully conducted an air defense operation,” said Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat.
“Twenty Shahed drones were destroyed, all flying ones were shot down. Two Kalibr cruise missiles were also destroyed,” he added.
The Iran-made Shahed attack drones were shot down “mainly in the Kiev region,” Ukraine’s Air Force said in a separate statement on Telegram.
These machines “entered the capital from different directions”, the Kiev military administration had previously explained on Telegram and assured that the anti-aircraft defense had destroyed “a dozen” over this city.
Debris fell in five neighborhoods, he said, noting that a 19-year-old woman and 23-year-old man had been hospitalized.
Two people were injured “by falling debris” in Darnytsky district, Sergiy Popko, the head of Kiev’s military administration, wrote on Telegram.
It was not known if they were the same two people.
Emergency services responded to emergency calls in Solomiansky, Shevchenkivsky, Podilsky and Darnytsky districts following “explosions in the capital,” Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko previously announced.
In the Podilsky district, firefighters discovered the “corpse of a dead man,” he told Telegram.
He also spoke of two people who were “hospitalized” in Darnytsky district after falling debris damaged an apartment building.
Two other people were treated locally in Chevtchenkivsky district, Mr Klitschko said.
Fires broke out in a residential building in the same neighborhood and in another non-residential building in Podilsky, he added.
A photo published by the Kyiv military administration on Telegram showed a room in a high-rise building where part of the wall was blown off, allegedly due to falling debris in Darnytsky district.
The Ukrainian air defense also destroyed two Kalibr cruise missiles overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force announced on Telegram.
She also claimed that an Iskander-M ballistic missile was launched from the Crimean Peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014.
Information about this rocket is “still being clarified”.