French media: Kyiv suffered a new large-scale drone and missile attack by Russia, at least 4 dead

The capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, was attacked again by a large-scale air strike by Russia early on Friday, November 14, resulting in at least 4 deaths and dozens of injuries. At the same time, Moscow said that it shot down more than 200 Ukrainian drones attacking its territory during the night.

Kyiv Mayor Timur Tkachenko said, "The Russian forces attacked residential buildings. Several high-rise buildings in almost every district of Kyiv were damaged."

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy announced on Friday that Russia had launched about 430 drones and 18 missiles toward Kyiv during the night, causing four deaths. He condemned Russia for launching an "intentional attack aimed at causing maximum harm to civilians and maximum damage to civilian infrastructure."

AFP journalists saw tracers from anti-drone weapons and air defense systems being activated, with loud explosions heard in the city center during the night.

Kyiv police said that approximately 30 residential buildings were damaged, and among the injured were a pregnant woman and a 10-year-old boy.

On the night of Thursday, the mayor of Kyiv urged residents to urgently go to shelters, warning that "the enemy would launch a large-scale air strike on the capital." He said that fires broke out in several districts after the attack, and rescue personnel had been deployed. He specifically pointed out that some heating pipelines had been damaged. In the Sinyavsky district, due to an emergency with the main heating pipeline, some buildings temporarily lost heating, and there might also be water and power outages.

According to rescuers, eight out of ten districts in Kyiv were affected by the attack, and the city government warned that public transportation would be affected on Friday morning.

The mayor of Irpin in Kyiv Oblast, Markushin, described it as a "difficult night" on Facebook, saying that "several Shahed drones and missiles flew over the city."

Russian forces continue to advance their offensive in eastern Ukraine, especially in the Donetsk area. With winter approaching, for weeks, Russian forces have continuously increased bombing of Ukraine's civilian and energy infrastructure as well as railway networks.

At the same time, Russia announced on Friday that it intercepted more than 200 Ukrainian drones during the night, some of which targeted a petroleum port in the Black Sea and the cities of Volgograd and Saratov. The Russian Defense Ministry said on Telegram that "the air defense system intercepted and destroyed 216 Ukrainian drones during the night," with 66 of them shot down in the Krasnodar region in the south and 59 in the Black Sea. Officials stated that a fire broke out at an oil refinery in Novorossiysk, and several residential buildings and a civilian ship were damaged by drone fragments, resulting in four injured people.

Ukrainian drone attacks frequently cause damage to Russian oil and gas and their transport pipelines, leading to rising fuel prices.

With the postponement of the Budapest summit between Trump and Putin, peace talks between Ukraine and Russia have stalled.

Sources: rfi

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