Air Defense Forces Shoot Down UAV Over Kiev, Fire Breaks Out from Wreckage

Air defense forces shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle in the sky over Kiev.

Source: Air Force in the comments to Ukrainska Pravda, head of the KGVA Serhiy Popko Telegram

Details: The Air Force told the UP that the air defense was working on the UAV, which was eventually destroyed by the forces of mobile fire groups.

Direct speech Popko: “During the last air raid over Kiev, an unmanned aerial vehicle was spotted. The object was shot down by air defense forces and facilities. There is no information about the victims or destruction of housing stock or infrastructure. Information is being specified.”

More details: According to the KSVA, as a result of the fall of the wreckage of a downed UAV in the Solomensky district of the capital, a fire broke out in a non-residential premises.

Representatives of the State Emergency Service are on site. The consequences are being specified.

Added: Later, the mayor of the capital, Vitali Klitschko, wrote on Telegram that as a result of the fall of the wreckage of the UAV, there was also a small fire in the Pechersk district. The buildings were not damaged and there were no casualties.

According to him, the fire in a 4-storey building in the Solomensky district of the capital was localized. The structures of the building on an area of ​​150 sq. m. Information about the victims is being specified.

What came before: In Kyiv and the Kyiv region, on the evening of May 4, an air alert was announced. From 20:13 the people of Kiev began to hear numerous explosions and shots in the air. The Kiev city military administration reported that air defense was working. The sound of an aircraft engine was also heard in the city.

At 20:33 in Kyiv and the region announced the end of the alarm.