The Kiev military administration said that “the capital is under attack from drones”.
She added: “Ukrainian air defenses are facing Russian drones in Kiev airspace.”
The state of air alert was declared in Kiev, as well as in several Ukrainian regions in eastern Ukraine.
Kiev’s military department referred to preliminary information about a fire in a 10-storey building in the Darnitsy district of the capital.
The mayor of Kiev also reported the fall of debris from a step or a missile which caused a fire in the Dnipro district of the Ukrainian capital.
The Russian attacks on Kiev came after Ukraine said on Friday it had repelled attacks by Russian forces trying to regain lost territory around the devastated eastern town of Bakhmut.
According to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Russian private military group “Wagner” leading the attack on the city, “bloody and violent battles” are taking place, and that his men are on the verge of capturing Bakhmut himself.
Meanwhile, a Ukrainian mortar unit near the town said it had advanced this week but was facing heavy fire from Russian forces, which appeared to have large manpower and huge stockpiles of ammunition.
Ukraine said it made little progress this week on the city’s outskirts in the industrial Donbass region, even as Wagner’s Russian forces came close to capturing the city itself.
Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hana Malyar said Russian forces made some gains inside the city itself in fierce fighting, but did not take it.
And she explained in a message on Telegram: “Fierce battles are going on in the Bakhmut region. The enemy cannot win with quality, so he tries with your spirit.”
She explained: “The rate of advance of our forces on the outskirts of Bakhmut today has diminished to some extent. At the same time, the enemy cannot regain the positions he has lost. Our soldiers repel all enemy attacks in this area.
Moscow sees its attack on Bakhmut as an important part of a campaign to seize the rest of the industrial Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.
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