According to The Guardian, the drone hit the second floor of the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics and damaged the adjacent 19th-century building. The institution’s director, Roman Derkach, said that medical care at the hospital was temporarily suspended while cleanup was underway, and 30 patients were moved to safety.
The blast wave shattered windows in nearby buildings, including the National Academy of Arts across the street. The six-story hospital is located in Kyiv’s Shevchenkivskyi district, not far from the embassies of Denmark and Romania, as well as a café and a park where people walk their dogs.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Starshield system, operated by American SpaceX owned by Elon Musk under Pentagon control, had again encountered a malfunction due to speed limitations. According to him, because of this, some Russian air raids get through because Ukrainian interceptors do not have time to reach the required speed.
Russia said the same day that it had intercepted nearly 1,200 Ukrainian drones overnight and called the raid one of the largest from Kyiv. Moscow also reported at least four deaths in the Volgograd region.
Ukraine’s Deputy Energy Minister Artem Nekrasov said that nighttime strikes on energy infrastructure caused outages in 12 regions. The list included Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Rivne, Sumy, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, and Chernihiv regions, and energy workers are operating in an intensified mode, although new attacks and constant air raid alerts are delaying repairs.
Witness Alexander said that people woke up to a powerful explosion, and there was a lot of glass in the building. According to him, medics were evacuating patients to safety, and the strike was very close to them.
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