[The Epoch Times, 17 ottobre 2022](full report by Epoch Times reporter Chen Ting) Monday (October 17),KievIt happened at least 4 timesto blow up，UkraineThe president’s adviser said it wasRussiaSend the attack with “kamikaze drones” (suicide drones loaded with bombs).
Ukraine“It shows they are desperate,” said Andriy Yermak, President Zelensky’s chief of staff.
KievMayor Vitali Klitschko said residential buildings in the center of the Shevchenkivskiy district were damaged.
The mayor said 18 people were rescued from the building after the attack, but at least two were trapped under the rubble.
Rescue operations are underway and the firefighters are still fighting the fire, dismantling the damaged structures and clearing the rubble.
Authorities are continuing efforts to confirm the casualty figures of the attack, Klitschko said.
Kiev was hit during rush hour a week agoRussiaThe missile attack, which was part of what was then a nationwide Russian attack on Ukraine, killed 19 people and injured more than 100.
According to full foreign media reports, Monday’s blast began around 6:30 am local time and occurred at least four times in total. The most recent was around 8:10 local time.
On two occasions near the city center sirens and car sirens sounded throughout the area.
Klitschko wrote on the social media site Telegram that there was an explosion in the Shevchenko district, which suffered several attacks last week.
He said rescuers were at the scene of the fire and told the residents to stay in the shelters.
Yermak said the kamikaze attack was a “pain of death” for Russia and said Ukraine needs to get more air defenses “as soon as possible”.
A local reporter, Oksana Kovalenko, said two drones hit critical energy-related infrastructure, one of which was shot down.
The Epoch Times was unable to independently verify the claims on the battlefield.
The Ukrainian air force said it also destroyed dozens of Iranian-made “planes” in various parts of southern and eastern Ukraine in the early hours of Monday.Witness – 136 “(Shaded-136) UAV.
‘On October 17, 3:30 to 6:50 am, 15 were destroyed in the south’testimony ‘The UAVs also destroyed 3 cruise missiles to the east, “reported the Air Force,” 6 UAVs were destroyed in the Odessa area and 5 in the Mikolayev area. “
Kamikaze drones are small aerial weapons, unlike other drones, these drones are disposable and destroyed after dropping ammunition, their name comes from WWII, when they volunteered as a Japanese pilot who crashed on the plane during a suicide mission.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of using an Iranian-made kamikaze drone. But Iran has denied providing the drones, while Russia has refused to comment.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week’s strike was in retaliation for the bombing of a key bridge connecting Russia and Crimea, blaming Ukraine for the action.
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