KYIV (Reuters) – A Russian air assault on Kyiv broken buildings, roads and a number of other energy strains within the metropolis, the capital’s army administration stated early on Sunday, after the army stated air defences have been attempting to repel a drone assault.

There have been no accidents within the assault, which got here in waves and approached the town from totally different instructions, Serhiy Popko, the pinnacle of the Kyiv army administration, stated on the Telegram messaging app.

Popko stated there was no hearth, amending the administration’s earlier account that emergency crews had been dispatched to the positioning of a fireplace within the Shevchenkivskyi district that it stated had been brought on by the assault.

It was Russia’s second drone assault on Kyiv in as many nights. In keeping with preliminary info, all the assault drones have been destroyed, Popko added. It was not instantly clear what number of drones have been launched at Kyiv.

Falling drone particles broken an entrance and home windows of at the very least 5 buildings within the Shevchenkivskyi and Holosiivskyi districts, together with a hostel and home windows in an workplace constructing, Popko stated.

The army posted a number of images on Telegram displaying a blown-out entrance to a constructing, broken home windows in one other and energy strains mendacity on the highway.

Reuters witnesses reported listening to blasts and seeing plumes of smoke rising from above residential buildings.

Shevchenkivskyi district close to Kyiv’s centre is a busy space with a cluster of universities, eating places and vacationer points of interest. Holosiivskyi district is residence to a big nationwide park. Each districts lie on the western financial institution of the Dnipro River.

Kyiv, its surrounding area and the overwhelming majority of the japanese half of Ukraine have been intermittently beneath air raid alerts for a lot of the evening, in line with alerts issued on social media by the Ukrainian army.