A massive drone and ballistic attack on Kyiv region lasted almost all of Tuesday, 16 September, the whole night and Wednesday morning. The Obukhiv, Brovary, Fastiv and Bucha districts came under fire, with 33 sites damaged in total. The head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, Tymur Tkachenko, reported this.

The Brovary district suffered the most — 14 sites — followed by the Fastiv district with 10. The damage includes private houses, warehouse and industrial premises and vehicles. Nobody was killed or injured; services are dealing with the aftermath. How many sites were damaged in the Bucha district, and where, the administration has not yet specified.

The second such day in a row

This is the second report in two days in which the Bucha district appears: over the previous 24 hours, according to Tkachenko, 17 sites were damaged in five districts of the region, including Bucha district — eight private households, five vehicles and a municipal enterprise. The sky over the district did not calm down after the morning report either: at 08:49 Kyiv region police again declared a yellow-level drone threat for the Bucha district.

The capital had a harder night: according to Kyiv’s State Emergency Service, 16 people were injured in the attack, and in the Dniprovskyi district the blast wave damaged the facades of apartment blocks.

What to do during an alert

Rescuers and the regional administration keep repeating a simple rule: an alert is not a reason to look at the sky. Shelter, the “two walls” rule away from windows, notifications switched on. This applies especially to drivers at filling stations: petrol stations in the region are being connected to the Defence Forces’ air-awareness system, and staff will be entitled to stop serving customers during a threat.

As a reminder, on 8 September drones struck the Bucha district — warehouses were on fire, and at the start of the month a strike on Lisne killed two people.

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