At least four dead after Russian drone attack on a school near kyiv

Four people were killed and several injured in a Russian attack with drones that struck a secondary school in the region of kyivUkrainian authorities said on Wednesday.

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The emergency services initially reported three deaths in this stroke south of the capital, but the police later announced a new victim.

“The fourth victim is a 40-year-old driver. The man did not go down to the shelter during the alert for stroke aerial”, said Andrii Nebytov, police chief of the region of kyiv.

An ambulance driver called to the scene was among those deadsaid the office of the general prosecutor of Ukraine.

The action struck a school secondary school in Rzhyshchiv, a city located about 80 km south of kyivspecified the emergency services, which published photos of damaged buildings.

He stroke “partially destroyed” two student residences and a building with classrooms, the same source indicated.

It also started a fire that spread to 300 square meters of the school before being extinguished just before 7:00 a.m., emergency services said.

The Ukrainian Air Force noted that the stroke ran with 21 drones of Iranian manufacture taken off from the Russian region of Bryansk, of which 16 were intercepted by its defense batteries.

“About 20 drones deadly Iranians, more missiles, numerous bombardments (…) and this alone in a night of terror Russian against Ukraine”, the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said on Twitter.

Source: Elcomercio

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