‘The sky is for drones’: Zelensky warns Russian skies unsafe for airlines
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warned airlines and insurance companies on Tuesday that the presence of Ukrainian drones had made Russian skies dangerous to use and that they were effectively closed. "Today, we want to warn every airline that uses Russian airspace, every insurer, everyone who still uses key Russian airports: the Russian sky is becoming completely dangerous," Zelensky said…
Russian drone strikes on Kyiv on September 2, 2023, resulted in at least seven injuries, according to authorities. The attacks came on the seventh consecutive day of relentless bombardments on the Ukrainian capital. Among the injured were two doctors, who were hospitalized, reported Mayor Vitali Klitschko. In the Shevchenkivskyi district, a Russian drone hit a six-story residential building, leading to a fire in a nearby residential structure.
In the Holosiivskyi district, a drone targeted a warehouse. By the morning of September 2, Russian overnight attacks had already claimed at least two lives and injured 21 others, stated Head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, Timur Tkachenko. The previous night, on September 1, Russia launched a ballistic missile attack alongside a prolonged drone barrage against Kyiv and its surrounding oblast, killing at least 12 people and injuring 21.
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