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Share: In the morning of November 8, the Russians launched another group of Shah...

Explosions in Kyiv and a number of regions: Russians attack Ukraine with "Shaheds", a fire broke out in the capital

Share: In the morning of November 8, the Russians launched another group of Shahed-type attack drones over Ukraine, causing explosions in a number of regions. A fire broke out in Kyiv due to shelling. An air alert due to the threat of attack UAVs was announced in the Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy and Chernihiv regions. Focus collected data on the attack of "Shaheed" in Ukraine. Around 04:00 a. m.

new groups of Russian "Shakhed" entered the airspace of Ukraine. Part of the drones moved through the Chernihiv region in the direction of the Kyiv region and reached the capital. The Air Force warned about drones on the outskirts of Kyiv and Brovary. Soon, explosions rang out in Kyiv: the Kyiv City Military Administration reported that air defense forces were working in the capital on enemy targets in the sky.

Subsequently, the head of the KMVA Timur Tkachenko informed that a fire broke out in Kyiv due to an attack by an unmanned aerial vehicle. According to the official, the fire started in the Pechersk district of the capital. The mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko clarified that in the Pechersk district of the capital, the wreckage of an unmanned aerial vehicle had previously fallen in the yard of a residential building. Emergency services went to the scene of the incident.

According to the detailed data of the KMVA, in Kyiv, the ignition happened at two locations in the Pechersk district. First, burning cars. There were no reports of casualties from the attack at the time of publication. Also, the attack drones moved through the Poltava region. A Focus correspondent reported around 04:20 a. m. that a series of explosions rang out in Kremenchuk.

Drones also attacked Dnipro in the morning for the second time overnight: explosions rang out in the city, local channels reported. The news is being updated. . . We will remind, on the night of November 8, the Minister of Energy of Ukraine Svitlana Grynchuk announced the introduction of emergency power outages in a number of regions due to the Russian attack on the energy sector.