{"id":76067,"date":"2025-05-05T09:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76067\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T09:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T09:07:13","slug":"russia-launches-over-160-drones-on-ukraine-in-overnight-attack-injuring-at-least-11-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/76067\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia launches over 160 drones on Ukraine in overnight attack injuring at least 11 people"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russia launched a large-scale drone assault on Ukraine overnight from Saturday into Sunday, deploying 165 unmanned aerial vehicles, according to Ukraine\u2019s armed forces.<\/p>\n

In the capital Kyiv, the attacks triggered fires that left eleven people injured, including two children, according to the State Emergency Services (SES).<\/p>\n

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The SES reported that the attack affected three districts of the capital: Obolonskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, and Shevchenkivskyi.<\/p>\n

In Obolonskyi, a blaze damaged a 12-storey residential building. <\/p>\n

“When it hit, we didn\u2019t know what to do. I was with my son, and I said to him: \u2018Come on, let\u2019s go!\u2019 I grabbed him like this, in my pyjamas, and ran over here. We saw a neighbour come out and started running away,” Nadiya, one of its residents, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw people coming down the stairs to evacuate. We were all sitting here in the dark,” she added. <\/p>\n

“There was a strong fire, they were putting it out, and we were sitting here. Two guys got hurt, an ambulance came, but they didn\u2019t take them, probably they were under a lot of stress.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Sviatoshynskyi, residential buildings were affected by fire, and in Shevchenkivskyi, local infrastructure bore the brunt of the attack, with roads and electricity poles damaged.<\/p>\n

The SES said that 75 firefighters were deployed to tackle the blazes, all of which have now been extinguished.<\/p>\n

Further south, the central region of Cherkasy also sustained damage following Russian shelling.<\/p>\n

In the town of Cherkasy, the facades and windows of multi-storey buildings were destroyed, along with warehouses belonging to a furniture company, a trading base and garden structures.<\/p>\n

“There was no whistle, no noise, nothing, it just hit us so hard that the windows blew out. Thank God we are alive,” one resident, Vasyl Shevchenko, recounted the attack.<\/p>\n

“They say that you need to take packages, take documents, take this and that. In such a situation, what can you take? We just took our underwear and ran.”<\/p>\n

Preliminary reports indicate that 10 flats were damaged during the overnight strikes, two of which were completely destroyed by fire.<\/p>\n

Emergency services mobilised more than 100 rescuers and 26 vehicles to respond to the affected areas, where both homes and businesses were impacted by the fires.<\/p>\n

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According to the Air Armed Forces of Ukraine\u2019s Telegram channel, the regions of Kharkiv,\u00a0Donetsk, and Dnipropetrovsk were also targeted during the overnight strikes.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s military says it shot down 69 Shahed-type drones and other UAVs, while 80 went off radar.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry released footage on Sunday, claiming it showed Russian forces striking Ukrainian military positions in the southern Kherson region. Euronews could not independently verify its authenticity.<\/p>\n

Video editor \u2022 Lucy Davalou<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADVERTISEMENT Russia launched a large-scale drone assault on Ukraine overnight from Saturday into Sunday, deploying 165 unmanned aerial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,10546,12,657,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-76067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-kyiv","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-ukraine","13":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114454439309769269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}