About 20 drones of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were knocked down: the authorities told about the condition of the dam and destruction
The forces of air defense have shot down about 20 Russian goals. At the same time, there are places of destruction after arrival in the region. The head of the Kyiv City Military Administration Sergey Popko told about the situation in the capital. Popko reported that air alarm in the capital lasted about eight hours. The enemy attacked Kyiv with two waves. The first wave took place in the night and consisted of more than a dozen drones-Kamikadze "Shahaned".
The second wave - in the morning and had about the same size, wrote the official. The air defense forces were successfully worked on the drone: 20 UAVs were blown up. The fighters knocked out "Shahda" on the approaches to the capital, the official said. The wreckage of one of the blown devices fell on the highway on the departure from Holosiivskyi district: the car was burned, the driver was wounded.
The head of the Kiev Ova Ruslan Kravchenko is about 4 pm On August 26, he added new details about the consequences of Russian shelling. The official stated that it had exploded in all seven districts of the region. Four people were injured, among them a newborn baby. There are damage to energy facilities, 40 houses, five machines, parking lots and warehouses. The official also explained in what condition the dam of the Kiev hydroelectric power station. The dam survived: about 16-17 hours.
Through the dam will restore the movement of the car, Kravchenko wrote. The head of the regional military administration, as well as the State Emergency Service of the Kiev region, published several photos of points affected by the shelling of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on August 26. In the photo of the SESS we see the ruins of private homes and the wandering from the rocket and drone hit, about 5 meters in diameter.
The firefighters reported that they had to extinguish the fire after arriving. In the photo of Kravchenko, a children's scooter and a church were found in the frame, which is barely visible behind the ruins and a smoky pillar. It should be noted that at night and in the morning of August 26, residents of Kiev heard the sounds of explosions that were heard during the Russian attack by drones and rockets.
In the first hours after the attack, the local authorities confirmed the blows of energy and that emergency shutdowns were introduced in the capital and region. In addition, there was no water on the Right Bank for about an hour, but soon the work of the pumps resumed, said Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko. Meanwhile, photos and videos with the frames of a possible hit on the Kiev hydroelectric power station and the Dam of the reservoir have appeared on the network.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that there were strikes on energy facilities, but did not mention the threat to hydroelectric power plants in Vyshgorod. The head of the Center for Combating Misinformation at NSDC Andriy Kovalenko assured that there was no threat of a dam of the dam and explained why it is not necessary to compare this situation with the destruction of the Kakhovka reservoir.