Russian drone attack on warehouses in Kyiv region injures 3
Russian forces attacked warehouses in Bucha district, Kyiv region, on Thursday, injuring 3 people and damaging a home and a school-kindergarten, officials said.
Incidents in this story
- Bucha district · Thursday daytime: Drone strike on warehouses, Bucha district (3 injured)
- Bila Tserkva district · Thursday: Lorry destroyed by fire, Bila Tserkva district
- Bucha district · Thursday: Woman hospitalised with leg fracture, Bucha district (1 injured)
Russian forces attacked warehouse buildings in the Bucha district of Kyiv region on Thursday, injuring 3 people, Kyiv regional military administration head Tymur Tkachenko said on Telegram. One of the injured was hospitalised; the other two received medical treatment at the scene, he said. Tkachenko gave no further details on the extent of their injuries.
The same attack damaged a private home in Bucha district, and a lorry was burned out in the neighbouring Bila Tserkva district, Tkachenko said. In Sviatopetrivske, within Bucha district, the strike also damaged a school-kindergarten building, a nearby playground and the windows of surrounding apartment blocks, he added.
A woman was injured elsewhere in Bucha district, suffering an open fracture of her shin and bruises, and was taken to hospital, Tkachenko said. Ukraine's State Emergency Service said a drone strike set fire to a gazebo on the school-kindergarten grounds; no one was hurt there because everyone was in a shelter at the time.
Separately, Ukraine's security service, the SBU, said on Thursday it had foiled an attempt by Russian handlers to recruit two Kyiv region teenagers, aged 17 and 16, for sabotage. Investigators said the older teenager, after being blackmailed online by someone posing as an SBU officer, set fire to several lorries belonging to a local logistics company; he has been charged with deliberate destruction of property by arson and faces up to ten years in prison, the SBU said.
The SBU said both teenagers were first contacted in Telegram chats through fake profiles of young women seeking relationships. The profiles later vanished from the chats and were replaced by a purported Russian handler who accused the teenagers of treason and threatened to implicate them unless they cooperated. The younger teenager had separately been told to hide a packet of screws and send its location to the handler, so that the first teenager could scatter them on a road to block lorry traffic, the SBU said. The investigation into everyone involved is continuing, the SBU said.
What we know
- Russian forces attacked warehouses in Bucha district, Kyiv region, on Thursday, injuring 3 people; a home was damaged and a lorry burned out in nearby Bila Tserkva district, regional administration head Tymur Tkachenko said.
- A school-kindergarten building, a playground and nearby apartment windows were also damaged in Sviatopetrivske, Bucha district; no one was hurt there, the State Emergency Service said.
- A woman suffered a leg fracture elsewhere in Bucha district and was hospitalised, Tkachenko said.
- The SBU said it foiled a Russian attempt to blackmail two Kyiv region teenagers, aged 17 and 16, into committing sabotage; the older teenager set fire to lorries and has been charged.
Why it matters for Europe
Russia has stepped up drone and missile strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region in recent weeks as part of a wider campaign against Ukrainian infrastructure ahead of winter. The SBU's account of Russian handlers blackmailing minors into arson and road sabotage shows Moscow is also trying to strike inside Ukraine through online recruitment rather than only with drones and missiles.
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Questions and answers
- What happened in Bucha district on Thursday?
- A Russian drone attack hit warehouses, injuring 3 people, and also damaged a home, a lorry in nearby Bila Tserkva district, and a school-kindergarten, regional officials said.
- Was anyone else hurt in Kyiv region that day?
- Yes, a woman suffered a leg fracture in a separate location in Bucha district and was hospitalised, the regional administration head said.
- What did Ukraine's security service say about the teenagers?
- The SBU said Russian handlers blackmailed a 17-year-old and a 16-year-old from Kyiv region into sabotage; the older teenager set fire to lorries and has been charged with arson.
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