A few minutes before January 2, an air raid was announced in the Kiev region following the south and center of Ukraine due to an attack by Shahed kamikaze drones. Soon after, explosions thundered in the region and in the capital; regional authorities reported on the work of the air defense.
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“Kiev region – air defense is working. Stay in shelters and safe places,” wrote the head of the regional military administration Oleksiy Kuleba.
Traditionally, it has called for “under no circumstances to photograph or post online the work of military and air defense forces.” Previously, the military asked not to post photos of the drone wreckage with numbers or other names on the Internet. distinctive traits.
It is not specified what type of stray ammunition the enemy is using: the “standard” Shahed-136 or the smaller Shahed-131. In the overwhelming majority of attacks, the Russians use the former.
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At 21:12 about the drone attack informed head of the OVA Nikolaev Vitali Kim. Subsequently, in the local publics of the southern and central regions, residents wrote about the work of the air defense, but this was not officially reported. The alarm gradually, with the advance of the drones northwards, reached Cherkasy and Kiev.
At 00:26 about air defense work over the capital reported and in the Kiev garrison.
00:32. The sounds of explosions are heard in the Dnieper.
00:44. In the Telegram channel Nikolayevsky Vanyok published video about which fighter aircraft “works” in shaheed:
00:46. In the Poltava region jobs air defense
00:49. Rumors of explosions are heard near Kiev.
00:55. Residents of one of the north-western suburbs of Kiev write about the fall of “fragments of drones” in the private sector, preliminaries – minor damage to the house.
01:06. Mayor of Kyiv Klitschko writes about the explosion in the Desnyansky district: “All services are arriving.” Deputy head of the OP Tymoshenko clarified: there was a fall of fragments of a drone on the roadway, the windows of a multi-storey building were damaged nearby, information about the victims is clarified.
01:11. Head of the Kiev OVA writesthat “the danger in the Kiev region remains, our air defense forces are working on targets.”
01:12. Strong explosions near Kiev.
01:14. Dnipropetrovsk region:
01:21. In the Desnyansky district of the capital hospitalized injured 19-year-old man: received a stab wound in the foot (he stepped on glass fragments through negligence).
01:54. Again the distant sounds of explosions in the Kiev region.
02:37. For this minute above the capital 16 air targets shot down.
03:11. “Noisy in the region and in the capital. Night attack by drones. The Russians have launched several waves of shaheed drones. They are targeting critical infrastructure. The air defense is working”, – writes Kuleba.
03:28. From Kiev, two of our sources report power surges in the network. Was there a knock in the fuel system object?
At 03:37 The air raid map looks like this:
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