Ukrainian authorities early Sunday reported a drone attack on Kyiv and urged people to remain in shelters as the air defence system rained debris on the capital.
An AFP journalist in Kyiv heard around ten explosions.
“Air defence system is working in Kyiv region and in the capital. More UAVs are moving in the direction of Kyiv,” Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram, referring to unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones.
In central Kyiv’s Podilskyi district, doctors treated a person suffering from an “acute stress attack” after debris fell in an open area, Klitschko added.
Debris also fell on the districts of Sviatoshynskyi and Shevchenkivskyi, according to Sergiy Popko, head of the Kyiv City Military Administration.
He did not specify whether all the drones had been shot down.
“Information on victims and destruction is being clarified. All emergency services went to the places. The air alert continues, stay in shelters until the end of alert,” he wrote just before 2:00 am (2300 GMT Saturday).
In Shevchenkivskyi district, falling debris caused a fire at a residential building, but it was extinguished by the building’s owners, Popko wrote.
Debris also caused a fire in the city’s well-known Sovky Park.