File photo: Ukrainian servicemen of an air defence unit operate a Swedish RBS 70 portable air-defence system during their combat shift, in Kyiv region, Ukraine, 27 June 2023;
Credit: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko
KYIV (Reuters) - A 56-year-old man was injured in an overnight Russian drone strike on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown, the central city of Kryvyi Rih, the regional governor said on Friday 14 July 2023.
The attack damaged a number of buildings in Kryvyi Rih but Ukraine's air force said sixteen of the seventeen Iranian-made Shahed attack drones launched by Russia overnight had been shot down in southern and eastern areas of the country.
Falling debris damaged a municipal enterprise, two residential buildings and a transport company in Kryvyi Rih, regional governor Serhiy Lysak said on the Telegram messaging app.
City mayor Oleksandr Vilkul said windows had been blown out in apartment blocks and private houses, hospitals and schools.
The drone launches were the latest in a series of attacks in which the capital Kyiv came under attack on three successive nights this week. Russia did not comment on the attacks and denies deliberately targeting civilians.
