The strike was carried out using Iranian-made Shahed suicide drones in the early hours of the day, Britain’s The Telegraph newspaper reported.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on the Telegram social messaging app that the body of one resident was recovered when emergency services put out a fire in the city’s historic Podil district, according to Britain’s The Guardian newspaper.
Klitschko added that two people had been taken to hospital after falling drone debris hit a residential building in the capital's Darnytskyi district.
Four injured
In all, four people were injured in Kyiv as a result of debris from downed unmanned aerial vehicles falling on houses, Ukraine’s state broadcaster Suspilne reported.
The person found dead had been killed as a result of a "domestic fire," and not as a result of action by Russia, according to Suspilne.
Explosions were heard across the city overnight, with debris from destroyed drones falling on four districts in the capital, The Telegraph reported, citing Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Ukraine shoots down 20 Russian drones, two cruise missiles
Overall, Ukrainian air defences intercepted all 20 Shahed drones fired by Russia against Ukraine on the night of July 12-13, the Ukrainska Pravda website reported.
The UAVs were launched from the north and south, and most headed for the Kyiv region, where they were destroyed, according to Ukraine’s air force.
Russia also fired two Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea, which were destroyed on different fronts by Ukraine’s air defences, and one Iskander M-type ballistic missile from the occupied Crimea Peninsula, Ukrainska Pravda reported.
The consequences of the launch of the Iskander were still being clarified on Thursday morning, according to officials.
Russian attacks kill civilians in Ukraine’s Kherson, Zaporizhzhia
Meanwhile, the Russian army also attacked Kherson City and its suburb Antonivka, in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, overnight, according to Suspilne, as quoted by The Guardian.
Over the past day, three people have been killed and two injured in the Kherson region; eight people have been injured in the eastern Donetsk region and one in the northeastern Kharkiv region, Suspilne also reported.
The death toll from the Russian attack on Ukraine’s southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia on Wednesday has reached 20, including eight children, Ukrainska Pravda reported.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, launching the largest military campaign in Europe since World War II.
Thursday is day 505 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
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Source: PAP, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Ukrainska Pravda