Ukraine Repels Russian ‘Kinzhal’ Missile Strike on Kyiv during Rush Hour

People sit at the Independence Square, as they mark the Defenders of Ukraine Day, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 1, 2024. (Reuters)
People sit at the Independence Square, as they mark the Defenders of Ukraine Day, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 1, 2024. (Reuters)
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Ukraine Repels Russian ‘Kinzhal’ Missile Strike on Kyiv during Rush Hour

People sit at the Independence Square, as they mark the Defenders of Ukraine Day, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 1, 2024. (Reuters)
People sit at the Independence Square, as they mark the Defenders of Ukraine Day, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 1, 2024. (Reuters)

Missile debris came down in three districts of the Ukrainian capital during rush hour on Monday morning after air defenses engaged and repelled a Russian strike, city authorities said.

No major damage or casualties were reported from the attack in which Russia fired hypersonic Kinzhal missiles at Kyiv, Serhiy Popko, head of the city military administration, said, citing a preliminary assessment.

Debris damaged the roof of a multi-storey residential building in the Solomianskyi district in the city's west and one piece of debris came down on the territory of a school, Popko's administration said.

Missile debris also fell onto an open area in the central Shevchenkivskyi district and damaged the roof of a car in the southern Kyiv district of Holosiivskyi.

Russia has staged long-range missile strikes on Ukraine throughout the war it launched in February 2022. Drone attacks have become regular, almost nightly occurrences.

Russia conducted an overnight drone attack on the area surrounding the capital, city authorities said. Around 15 drones were used in the assault, they added.



Russian Court Sentences US Citizen Gilman to Over 7 Years in Prison on Assault Charges

The Russian flag waves in the wind on the rooftop of the Consulate General of Russia in San Francisco, California, US, September 2, 2017. (Reuters)
The Russian flag waves in the wind on the rooftop of the Consulate General of Russia in San Francisco, California, US, September 2, 2017. (Reuters)
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Russian Court Sentences US Citizen Gilman to Over 7 Years in Prison on Assault Charges

The Russian flag waves in the wind on the rooftop of the Consulate General of Russia in San Francisco, California, US, September 2, 2017. (Reuters)
The Russian flag waves in the wind on the rooftop of the Consulate General of Russia in San Francisco, California, US, September 2, 2017. (Reuters)

A Russian court on Monday sentenced US citizen and ex-Marine Robert Gilman to seven years and one month in prison for assaulting a prison official and a state investigator, the local prosecutor's office said.
Gilman, 30, is already serving a 3-1/2-year sentence for attacking a police officer while drunk, a charge he was convicted of in October 2022.
Prosecutors in Voronezh, a city about 300 miles (500 km) south of Moscow where Gilman is incarcerated, said he had attacked a prison employee and a state investigator on separate occasions in the autumn of 2023.
Reuters was not immediately able to contact a lawyer for Gilman. The US Embassy in Moscow did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Russian state news agency RIA said Gilman, whose lawyers have previously told the TASS state news agency that he had come to Russia to study and obtain citizenship, had pleaded guilty to all the charges.
RIA cited Gilman as telling the court last week that he had been forced to use violence after the prison inspector had caused pain to his genitalia and after the investigator had insulted his father.
Gilman is one of at least 10 US nationals behind bars in Russia over two months after a prisoner swap between Moscow and the West on Aug. 1 freed 24 people, including three Americans.