Ukrainian air defense systems shot down 17 of 22 Russian drones over nine Ukrainian regions in an attack that sparked a fire at an apartment building in the early hours of Monday, officials said.
There were no casualties in the fire in the central city of Krivi Rog, where emergency services managed to evacuate residents and disable the drone’s payload before it exploded, local authorities said.
In the central region of Kirovograd, private industrial facilities and nearby residential buildings were damaged in the attack, but no one was injured, Kirovograd Governor Andrij Rajkovič announced on the Telegram messaging application.
Russian forces also launched seven missiles at targets in Ukraine overnight, according to a statement on Telegram.
During the night, a fire station was damaged and one person was injured in a rocket attack on the eastern region of Kharkiv, the state emergency service announced.
It was not immediately clear what happened to the missiles and drones that were not destroyed, reports Reuters.
