Kyiv region under attack of enemy kamikaze drones

That’s according to Oleksiy Kuleba, the chief of the Regional Military Administration, Ukrinform reports.

"We have attacks on one of the communities in our region. Tentatively, this was an attack by kamikaze drones," the head of the region wrote.

The official added that rescuers are already working on the scene.

As reported, during the air alert October 12, an enemy air target was shot down in Rivne region. In Zhytomyr region, air defense forces engaged an unidentified aircraft.

As reported earlier, Russia has deployed Iranian-manufactured unscrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) since at least August 2022, including the one-way attack Shahed-136 variant. Russia included Shahed variants among the extensive wave of strikes it conducted on October 10.

Previously, the Ukrainian General Staff reported that Russia had launched a total of 86 Shahed-136s and claimed that 60 percent had been destroyed in the air.

“Despite a reported range of 2,500 km, the Shahed-136 only has a small explosive payload. It is unlikely to be satisfactorily fulfilling the deep strike function which Russia probably aspired to use it for,” the British Defense Ministry reported earlier.