Kyiv experienced a massive Russian attack this Friday, November 14 morning. The strikes damaged around thirty buildings, local authorities announced, while Moscow said it had destroyed more than 200 Ukrainian drones on its territory. “The Russians attacked residential buildings. There were many large buildings damaged throughout Kyiv, in almost every district,” criticized the head of the city’s military administration, Timur Tkatchenko.
Police in the Ukrainian capital reported via Telegram “death of an elderly woman in Desniansky district and 24 people injured, including a pregnant woman and a 10-year-old boy”. Police detailed that around thirty residential buildings were damaged due to nighttime missile and drone attacks.
Early Friday morning, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko called on residents to reach the warned shelters“massive enemy attack on the capital”. Fires broke out in several neighborhoods after the strike and emergency services were called in, he said.
“Some parts of the heating network were damaged. In Desniansky district, due to an emergency situation on the main heating pipe, several buildings were temporarily without heating,” he explained. Water and power outages are also expected, the mayor warned. Eight of the city’s ten districts were affected by the attacks, according to emergency services, and the city government also warned that public transport in the Ukrainian capital would be affected this Friday morning.
Oleksandr Markoushyn, mayor of Irpin, a city in the Kyiv region, explained on his Facebook account a “tough night” with “Lots (drone) Shahed and missiles flying over the city.”
Continuing its offensive that began in 2022, Russia, whose forces are better equipped and more numerous, continues to carry out attacks in eastern Ukraine and especially in the Donetsk region where most of the recent fighting has been concentrated.
At the same time, Moscow has for weeks stepped up its bombardment of Ukraine’s civil and energy infrastructure and railway network, against a backdrop of falling temperatures ahead of winter.
On the Russian side, authorities announced that they had destroyed a large number of Ukrainian drones, some of which targeted the Black Sea oil port of Novorossiysk, as well as the cities of Volgograd and Saratov.
“Overnight, air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 216 Ukrainian drones,” including 66 in the southern Krasnodar region and 59 in the Black Sea, the ministry said via Telegram.
An oil refinery in Novorossiysk was hit by a fire that was later extinguished and several residential buildings were damaged by drone fragments, as well as a civilian ship, leaving a total of four people injured, according to authorities.
Ukrainian drone strikes often cause damage to the oil and gas sector as well as pipelines intended for the transport of hydrocarbons, leading to an increase in fuel prices.
Peace negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow stalled after the postponement of a summit in Budapest that had been discussed between Presidents Trump and Putin.
