kyiv, April 4, 2025.- Russia launched a large -scale attack with unmanned planes against Ukraine during the night from Saturday to Sunday, deploying 165 unmanned aerial vehiclesaccording to the Ukrainian armed forces. In the capital, kyiv, the attacks caused fires that They left 11 injuredamong them two children, according to the State Emergency Service (SES).
The SES reported that the attack affected three districts of the capital: Obolonskyi, Sviathynskyi and Shevchenkivskyi. In Obolonskyi, A fire damaged a 12 -storey residential building. Nadiya, one of its residents, described how it reacted when the attack occurred:
“When it happened, we didn’t know what to do. I was with my son and said: ‘Come, let’s go! I took him like this, in pajamas, and ran here. We saw a neighbor go out and started fleeing.” Nadiya added: “We saw people going down the stairs to evacuate. We were sitting here in the dark. There was a strong firethey were turning it off, and we were sitting here. Two boys were injured, an ambulance came, but they were not taken, they were probably very stressed. ”
Meanwhile, in Sviathynskyi, residential buildings were affected by fire, and in Shevchenkivskyi, the local infrastructure took the worst part of the attack, with damaged roads and electric posts. The SES reported that They had deployed 75 firefighters to face the flameswhich have already been extinguished. Further south, the central region of Cherkasy also suffered damage as a result of Russian bombings.
In the city of Cherkasy, The facades and windows of various buildings were destroyedtogether with warehouses from a furniture company, a commercial base and landscaped structures.
One of the victims, Vasyl Shevchenko, said the attack: “There was no whistle, no noise, nothing, it simply hit us so strong that The windows flew through the air. Thank God we are alive. They say you have to carry packages, documents, this and the other. In such a situation, what can be carried? We only took our underwear and fled. ”
Preliminary reports indicate that ten floors suffered damage during night attacks, two of which were completely destroyed by fire. Emergency services mobilized more than 100 people and 26 vehicles To respond to the affected areas, where both homes and shops were affected by fires.
According to the telegram channel of the Air Forces of Ukraine, Járkov’s regions, Donetsk and Dnipró were also white of the attacks during the night.
The Ukrainian military claim that They knocked 69 unmanned planes of the Shahed type and another 80 disappeared from the radars. For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry spread images that showed Russian forces attacking Ukrainian military positions in the southern region of Jersón.
