(Reuters) – An overnight Russian drone attack on the Kyiv region injured a 19-year-old woman and set a residential house on fire, Mykola Kalashnyk, governor of the region that surrounds the Ukrainian capital, said early on Wednesday.
“She was hospitalized with an injury to her head,” Kalashnyk wrote in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
Kalashnyk posted photos of firefighters battling large flames at night in what appeared to be a residential building.
Reuters could not independently verify the report, but Reuters witnesses said they heard blasts in and around Kyiv in what sounded like air defence systems in operation.
The capital’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said on Telegram that the city was under air attack.
Kyiv, the region surrounding it and the eastern half of Ukraine were under air raid alerts starting at around 2000 GMT, according to Ukraine’s air force data.
There was no immediate comment from Russia.
Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war, which Russia launched three years ago on its smaller neighbour and which has since killed thousands, the vast majority of them Ukrainian.
(Reporting by Oleksandr Kozhukhar and Lidia Kelly; Editing by Sam Holmes)
