On the night of August 29, Russian military forces struck a number of cities in Ukraine, including Kyiv. The most powerful strike hit Mykolaiv: part of the city was left without power, and electric transport did not go out onto the streets.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense said that in Mykolaiv the strike targeted port infrastructure, in particular logistics centers. No casualties in the city were reported.
In Kyiv, as a result of the strike, one of the apartments in a high-rise residential building caught fire, and private homes also burned. Two people were reported injured, and in the morning of August 29 attacks by jet drones on the capital continued.
In the morning, a large fire was visible in Kyiv, and according to a number of reports, a tire warehouse may have caught fire there. In the Obolon district, after a drone fell, a café building was damaged and a two-year-old girl was injured, after which Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that the child had died.
According to Klitschko, by morning in Kyiv, five people had already been injured as a result of drone attacks. According to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, overnight Ukrainian forces managed to shoot down 233 drones out of 267, with hits recorded in 15 locations, and Russia also launched several missiles.
Authorities in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions reported one person killed as a result of Russian strikes. These reports concern separate episodes of the same nighttime attack.
The previous evening, in the village of Mylaya in the Bucha district of Kyiv region, an explosion and a major fire occurred, followed by secondary detonations; Ukrainian authorities believe that an ammunition depot was hit there. Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhii Koretsky compared what happened to the explosion and fire in Vyshneve on July 6, said there had been “criminal negligence”, the prosecutor’s office opened an investigation, about 200 people were evacuated, and the Kyiv-Chop highway was closed. Russia’s Ministry of Defense also said it had struck the “Fim service” logistics center, whose warehouse facilities, according to the ministry, were used to store components of long-range Flamingo cruise missiles, although there is no independent confirmation of this.
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