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Russia launches overnight drone attack on Ukraine, hitting residential area in Sumy

10 February, 2025 Monday
10:16

On the night of February 9, Russian forces launched attack drones over Ukraine. In Sumy, a residential area was hit, and in Poltava, drone debris damaged a summer home community

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Falling debris in Poltava region

Last night, Russian aggressor attacked the Poltava region with drones, and air defense systems were operating in the region to counter Russian targets.

However, as a result of the drone's wreckage falling into a dacha cooperative in Poltava, a car kunga caught fire. The fire has already been extinguished. The fire has already been extinguished. 30 summer cottages were also damaged. 

There were no casualties. There were no hits to critical infrastructure.

Explosions in Kyiv

At 10:10 p.m., the Kyiv Regional Military Administration reported that air defense systems were operating in the region.

Kyiv residents also heard the sound of an explosion around 12:45 a.m. on Monday, February 10.

At around 12:46 a.m., Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that air defense was operating in Obolon and that a Russian drone was moving toward the city center.

At 1:36 a.m., Klitschko added that a one-story non-residential building in the Solomianskyi district of the capital was on fire, preliminarily due to the fall of UAV debris. The fire occurred in the neighborhood. Emergency services were working at the scene.

At 1:53 a.m., the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, Tymur Tkachenko, also said that the Russian aggressor was attacking the capital with drones, and the sounds that residents could hear were Ukrainian defenders working on targets. 

“So far, no debris has fallen, stay in safe places until the call for fire,” he added.

At 3:10 a.m., the Air Force reported a threat of an attack drone in the Kyiv region. At 3:35 p.m., the air raid alert was lifted in the Kyiv region.

Strike on Sumy

The acting mayor of Sumy, Artem Kobzar, said that a Shahed hit a parking lot in a residential area of the city - windows were smashed in high-rise buildings and cars were damaged.

Volodymyr Artiukh, the head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration, said that the parking lot that was hit by the Russian UAV was located in the center of the neighborhood, with residential buildings and a school nearby.

Later it became known that a 38-year-old woman was injured in the shelling. She was hospitalized.

The State Emergency Service reported that rescuers extinguished the fire after the UAV wreckage fell. Three houses and 15 cars were damaged in the city.

The Sumy City Council also said that one of the affected houses has no gas supply. It is noted that gas workers are ready to start work in the morning to restore the supply of natural gas.

Later, the Regional Military Administration added that during a night attack, air defense forces in the region shot down 5 Russian Shaheds.

  • On the night of February 9, the air alert in the Rivne region lasted nearly eight hours — the longest since the start of the full-scale invasion.
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