KYIV, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Russian forces launched missile and drone attacks on Kyiv early on Sunday, sparking fires in at least two districts of Ukraine’s capital, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
The city’s military administration said three people had been injured.
Klitschko, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said that falling debris had caused a fire in a non-residential part of a northern suburb.
Several cars were on fire and another fire had broken out in an area just south of the city centre, he said.
Reuters witnesses reported explosions in the city.
Tymur Tkachenko, Governor of the Kyiv region, reported that three more people, including a child, were injured as a result of drone attacks across the region.
Air alerts were in effect twice after 2 a.m. (2300 GMT on Saturday), each for about half an hour.
Russia has in recent weeks been staging intensive air attacks on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities.
(Reporting by Ron Popeski and Pavel PolityukEditing by William Mallard and David Goodman)
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