‘Kamikaze drones and rockets are assaulting all of Ukraine,’ President Zelenskyy states
Firefighters conduct work after the Russian drone attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine on October 17,2022 At least 4 different surges were heard in Kyiv, while authorities reported that the attacks were performed with kamikaze drones.
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has actually released a declaration amidst a wave of drone attacks on the capital Kyiv.
“All night and all morning, the enemy terrorizes the civilian population,” Zelenskyy stated on TelegramMonday “Kamikaze drones and missiles are attacking all of Ukraine,” he included.
“A residential building was hit in Kyiv. The enemy can attack our cities, but it won’t be able to break us. The occupiers will get only fair punishment and condemnation of future generations. And we will get victory,” he included.
Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klischko stated 18 individuals have actually been saved from a property structure struck by a drone.”According to preliminary information, two residents remain under the rubble. Rescue operations are ongoing. Extinguishing of fire in destroyed building structures and demolition of rubble is ongoing. We are clarifying the information on casualties,” he stated on Telegram.
— Holly Ellyatt
Drone attacks on Kyiv continuous, locals prompted to shelter
Firefighters at a ruined structure after Russian attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine onOct 17, 2022.
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Drone attacks on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv are continuous, according to authorities in the city. Air raid notifies remain in location, with locals being informed to shelter.
The Kyiv city military administration stated on Telegram today that “the enemy continues to attack. A residential building in the Shevchenkiv district was hit. Currently, information about the victims is being clarified. Please stay in shelters!”
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported more surges on Monday and published an image supposedly revealing the residues of an explosive-carrying drone.
One Kyiv resident informed the BBC today that she and her partner were safeguarding in their structure as drone attacks seemed happening every 15 minutes.
“The last two hours we can hear explosions and the noise of the drones flying over our building almost constantly. Believe me, once you’ve heard a rocket flying over your building, or a drone, you can tell and feel the difference. The drones fly lower than rockets,” local Ksenia stated, stating rockets make a whistling noise while drones seemed like a “very huge 200 kilogram motorcyle flying over your building, it’s really freaking scary.”
A “kamikaze” drone approaches for an attack in Kyiv onOct 17, 2022.
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Explosive- bring drones can fly low, tend to be sent out in waves or “swarms” to attack, and are more difficult to track on radar or to counter by air defenses. One image on Getty today revealed authorities attempting to shoot down the drones.
A law enforcement officer fires at a flying drone following attacks in Kyiv on October 17, 2022.
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Ukraine has actually stated consistently that Russia is utilizing Iranian- provided Shahed-136 drones. Iran has actually rejected providing such weapons regardless of proof to the contrary.
— Holly Ellyatt
Dramatic pictures of drone attacks on Kyiv
Dramatic pictures of drone attacks on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv are being released by Getty Images, revealing a so-called “kamikaze” drone targeting a place in the city.
A “kamikaze” drone approaches for an attack in Kyiv onOct 17, 2022.
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Other images revealed city authorities attempting to shoot down the explosive-carrying weapons.
A law enforcement officer fires at a flying drone following attacks in Kyiv on October 17, 2022.
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A law enforcement officer fires at a flying drone following attacks in Kyiv onOct 17, 2022.
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Other images revealed a surge in the city today and very first responders getting to the scene of another blast.
This frame grab from AFPTV video footage reveals smoke increasing past very first responders in Kyiv onOct 17, 2022.
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A male falls on the ground following a drone attack in Kyiv onOct 17, 2022.
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Heavy battling hits Soledar and Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine
Heavy combating is happening in the eastern area of Donbas in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on Sunday, with Ukraine’s military specifying that Russian forces were on the offending around Bakhmut.
“The key hot spots in Donbas are Soledar and Bakhmut,” Zelenskyy stated in his nighttime video address. “Very heavy fighting is going on there.”
Bakhmut is an essential target for Russia’s forces who are looking for to make and seal territorial gains in the Donetsk and Luhansk areas that comprise the Donbas, especially after needing to pull away from other settlements to the north, aroundKharkiv Bakhmut is tactically crucial and rests on a primary roadway resulting in the cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.
A lady crosses the Bakhmutka River on a makeshift wood bridge beside a ruined bridge onOct 12, 2022 in Bakhmut, Donetsk, Ukraine.
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Zelenskyy stated while the scenario on the cutting edge has actually not altered substantially over the last day, the combating in Bakhmut and Soledar– which lies simply north of Bakhmut– was extreme, with Russian forces tossing “everyone they could against our forces,” consisting of lawbreakers and mercenaries, he stated.
In its most current military upgrade, the General Staff of Ukraine’s militaries stated on Twitter Monday that “the enemy is trying to go on the offensive in Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions.” Avdiivka lies simply to the north of Donetsk city.
“The opponent is trying to hold the temporarily occupied territories, focusing efforts on attempts to contain the Defense Forces actions in individual directions, while trying to lead offensive actions in Bakhmut and Avdiiv directions,” the upgrade on Facebook stated.
“The enemy shells the Ukrainian positions along the entire contact line, reinforces its defensive positions and lines in certain directions, conducts aerial reconnaissance, hits critical infrastructure and civilian houses, violating the norms of international humanitarian law, the laws and customs of war,” it included.
Last Friday, Britain’s Ministry of Defense kept in mind that Russian- backed forces had actually made tactical advances over a number of days towards the center ofBakhmut Private military business Wagner Group “likely remains” greatly associated with the Bakhmut combating, the ministry stated in an intelligence upgrade.
— Holly Ellyatt
Kyiv struck by kamikaze drones, casualty numbers still unidentified
Residential structures in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv have actually been harmed after drone attacks on a main district, according to the city’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko and a senior federal government authorities.
“As a result of the drone attack, a fire broke out in a non-residential building in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv. Fire departments are working. Several residential buildings were damaged,” Klitschko stated on Telegram.
He stated medics are on the ground which more information on the variety of casualties is being clarified.
The head of the Ukraine president’s workplace, Andrii Yermak, likewise reported “explosions in Kyiv,” publishing on Telegram that “the capital was attacked by kamikaze-drones,” a name provided to explosive-carrying drones that Ukraine states Russia gotten from Iran.
“Russians think that it will help them, but such actions are like agony. We need more air defense systems and as soon as possible. We have no time for slow actions,” he stated. CNBC was unable to separately confirm the claims.
Russia has actually stepped up its usage of drone attacks on different targets in Ukraine, especially of energy facilities, mostly in action to Ukraine’s counteroffensives and following an attack on the Kerch Strait bridge connecting Russia and Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014.
— Holly Ellyatt
