{"id":26569,"date":"2022-10-17T04:56:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T04:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=26569"},"modified":"2022-10-17T04:56:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T04:56:59","slug":"kyiv-hit-by-kamikaze-drones-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/10\/17\/kyiv-hit-by-kamikaze-drones-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyiv hit by Kamikaze drones\u00a0&#8211; Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The head of Ukraine\u2019s state railway, Alexander Kamyshin, says that the shelling occurred near Kyiv central station \u2013 confirming what the Guardian\u2019s Daniel Boffey, who is at the station, said a few moments ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far there are no known casualties from the strikes near the station, though residential buildings were also damaged in the attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shelling near <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Kyiv?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kyiv<\/a> central station. No casualties. Passengers safe. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/KeepRunning?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KeepRunning<\/a>.<\/p>&mdash; Alexander Kamyshin (@AKamyshin) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AKamyshin\/status\/1581855851274305537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko says that \u201cseveral residential buildings\u201d have been damaged in the strikes on Kyiv this morning, and that medics are on site.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a post on Telegram, Kitschko wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>As a result of the drone attack, a fire broke out in a non-residential building in the Shevchenkiv district of Kyiv. Fire departments are working. Several residential buildings were damaged. Medics are on the spot. We are clarifying the information about the victims.<\/p><cite><br>Andriy Yermak, the head of the President\u2019s Office, said in a post on Telegram confirming the Kamikaze drone attack on Kyiv this morning, \u201cWe need more air defense systems and as soon as possible. We have no time for slow actions. More weapons to defend the sky and destroy the enemy. So be it.\u201d<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Ukrainian military officials, \u201ckamikaze drones\u201d are cheaper and less sophisticated than missiles but have proved\u00a0effective at causing<a href=\"\/\/item\/mobile.guardianapis.com\/international\/items\/world\/2022\/oct\/07\/russia-targets-zaporizhzhia-with-kamikaze-drones-for-the-first-time\"> <\/a>damage to targets on the ground. The Shahed-136 drones are able to remain airborne for several hours and circle over potential targets before being flown into enemy troops, armour or buildings and exploding on impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Three Kamikaze drone strikes this morning very near to Kyiv train station. Tell tale moped style noise followed by hell of a bang <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E6OBR99pIf\">pic.twitter.com\/E6OBR99pIf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Daniel Boffey (@danielboffey) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/danielboffey\/status\/1581858966308409346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of Ukraine\u2019s state railway, Alexander Kamyshin, says that the shelling occurred near Kyiv central station \u2013 confirming what the Guardian\u2019s Daniel Boffey, who is at the station, said a few moments ago.&nbsp; So far there are no known casualties from the strikes near the station, though residential buildings were also damaged in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[8775,7156,5304,11394,1279,9506,7445,6159,8265,8376,8954,5342,6716,6151,5331,5572,12985,3805,8174,5462,9271,9178,5350,5180,5555,9539,5654,5724,594],"class_list":["post-26569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-air-defense","tag-andriy","tag-attack","tag-attacks","tag-circle","tag-drone","tag-drones","tag-fire","tag-kamikaza-drones","tag-kamikaze-drone","tag-klitschko","tag-kyiv","tag-kyiv-mayor","tag-kyiv-mayor-vitali-klitschko","tag-mayor","tag-military","tag-missiles","tag-president","tag-railway","tag-residential","tag-sky","tag-troops","tag-twitter","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-victims","tag-vitali-klitschko","tag-weapons","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}