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Ukraine Says Overnight Russian Drone Attack On Kyiv Was Fifth This Month


Ukrainian service personnel use searchlights to look for drones in the sky over the city center during a Russian drone strike in Kyiv on September 9.
Ukrainian service personnel use searchlights to look for drones in the sky over the city center during a Russian drone strike in Kyiv on September 9.

The head of Ukraine's military administration in the capital said on September 9 that an overnight drone attack was Russia's fifth aerial assault on Kyiv this month. The official, Serhiy Popko, claimed that all of the Iranian-designed Shahed drones involved were destroyed. "The fifth air attack on Kyiv since the beginning of September!" Popko said. Preliminary reports suggested there were no casualties or damage in the city from the attack. Officials, meanwhile, said a 16-year-old girl in the Dnipropetrovsk-region town of Nikopol died in an overnight attack there that injured three others. Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration head Serhiy Lysak said emergency responders pulled the girl from the rubble of a damaged building but could not save her. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, click here.

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