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At least one killed and several injured after Russian drone attack on residential building in Kiev
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At least one killed and several injured after Russian drone attack on residential building in Kiev

At least one person was killed and five injured after a Russian drone struck a 25-story residential building in Kiev late Friday.

Emergency responders were dispatched to the scene to battle a fire that broke out on the top floor of the building following the impact.

The fire was extinguished, but a search and rescue operation continued, according to Kiev Major Vitali Klitschko.

Klitschko said one of the five injured was sent to hospital and a first aid tent was set up at the scene.

Ukraine’s Emergency Service says the attack destroyed several apartments in the building, with around 100 people evacuated after the drone strike.

“Apartments from the 17th to the 21st floors were damaged in the apartment building in the Solomyanskyi district,” Serhiy Popko, head of the military administration of the Ukrainian capital, wrote on Telegram, “The apartments caught fire on the 20th floor.”

Before the attack, local media reported that an air alert had been triggered in Kiev and other Ukrainian regions due to a mass attack by Russian drones – an almost daily occurrence in Ukraine for over a month.

Air defense units were deployed during the one-hour air raid alert.