Explosions and power outages were reported in Ukraine
The kamikaze drone attack on the night of November 25 was the largest since the beginning of the military conflict with the Russian Federation, the Ukrainian Air Force reported. According to Ukrainian media, the air defense forces shot down more than 70 drones, 60 of them in the Kiev area. As a result of the strike, five people were injured, and power outages began in Kiev. 77 residential buildings and 120 institutions in the center of the capital were left without electricity. The office of the President of Ukraine promised "payback" for the attack. Details are in the material of "Gazeta.Ru".
Ukrainian media reported a record-breaking kamikaze drone attack on Ukrainian cities on the night of November 25. The air defense system worked at night in Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Kirovograd regions, as well as in Kiev and the city of Zaporozhye controlled by the Ukrainian authorities.
The commander of the Air Force Mikola Oleshchuk in his Telegram channel reported that 75 drones were released, 71 of them were shot down. He claims that Kiev has become the main target of the attack.
The military administration of Kiev reported a massive shelling of the city: 50 UAVs were shot down, but this is only preliminary data. The speaker of the Air Force, Yuri Ignat, reported the destruction of 66 drones. This raid was the most massive since 2022, the military said. The air alert worked in Kiev for more than six hours. The military administration reported that the drones entered the city in several groups and dispersed in different directions. In addition, they constantly changed the vector of movement.
The mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko in his Telegram channel reported that the wreckage of the UAV fell in several districts of the city.
- In the Solomenskiy district, two local residents were injured, they did not need hospitalization. In addition, in one of the five-storey residential buildings, all the windows were knocked out. At that time there were two women inside, they could not get out on their own, they were released by rescuers.
- In the Dneprovsky district, a small fragment of a UAV fell on the stairwell of the upper floor of a high-rise apartment building, there was smoke, but there was no fire. None of the residents were injured.
- In the Goloseevsky district, debris fell on a four-story house, there were no injuries.
- In the Pechersk and Podolsk districts, debris fell in an open area on an undeveloped territory.
Klitschko added that rescuers and medical ambulance crews are working at the drone crash sites. In total, five local residents were injured in Kiev.
There is no light in Kiev
The Ministry of Energy of Ukraine reports that as a result of the attack, 77 residential buildings and 120 institutions in Kiev were left without electricity, specialists are restoring lines.
Strana, referring to the national energy company Ukrenergo, writes that drones damaged the main power transmission lines and distribution lines of the regional power grid company.
"The reliability of power supply in the region is reduced. Repair crews have already started emergency recovery work. But during the period of restoration work in the capital, there may be restrictions on energy supply," the Kiev city military administration said in an interview with the publication.
The agency added that there may be blackouts in Kiev. Local residents were asked to save electricity and not restart the network. A few hours later, the power supply was restored.
Ukraine threatens to take revenge
President of Latvia Edgars Rinkevics during his visit to Kiev, on the night of November 25, went down to shelter because of the shelling. He himself announced this in social networks, posting a photo from the shelter. On November 25, Swiss President Alain Berse also visited the Ukrainian capital to take part in the international summit on food security.
Commenting on the drone attack, the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Ermak, wrote in his Telegram channel that there will be a reckoning for what is happening in the country:
Constant air alarms cause damage to the Ukrainian economy in the amount of 9 billion hryvnias - about $ 240 million, wrote Strana with reference to the head of the tax committee Daniil Getmantsev. Last year, losses amounted to about UAH 7 billion.
In November, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky instructed the military command to find a solution how not to paralyze the country during the attack.
Alyona Fomina
