Two Injured in Russian Drone Attack on Kyiv

 Residents stand in front of an apartment building damaged by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 2, 2024. (Reuters)
Residents stand in front of an apartment building damaged by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 2, 2024. (Reuters)
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Two Injured in Russian Drone Attack on Kyiv

 Residents stand in front of an apartment building damaged by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 2, 2024. (Reuters)
Residents stand in front of an apartment building damaged by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 2, 2024. (Reuters)

At least two people were wounded in an overnight Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, city officials said on Saturday.

Debris from downed drones struck three city districts, damaging residential buildings and starting fires, according to military administrator Serhiy Popko.

The attack was still ongoing on Saturday morning, authorities said, with Reuters correspondents reporting hearing explosions in and around the city.

Russia has carried out regular airstrikes on Ukrainian towns and cities behind the front lines of the war which began when Russia invaded its neighbor in February 2022.

Kyiv's military said on Friday that Moscow's forces had launched more than 2,000 drones at civilian and military targets across Ukraine in October alone.

Russia has denied aiming at civilians and said power facilities are legitimate targets when they are part of Ukrainian military infrastructure.



Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Urges Allies to Stop Watching, Start Acting on North Korea

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks at the opening of the Nordic Council session in Reykjavik, Iceland October 29, 2024. (Magnus Froederberg/norden.org/Nordic Council/Handout via Reuters)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks at the opening of the Nordic Council session in Reykjavik, Iceland October 29, 2024. (Magnus Froederberg/norden.org/Nordic Council/Handout via Reuters)
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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Urges Allies to Stop Watching, Start Acting on North Korea

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks at the opening of the Nordic Council session in Reykjavik, Iceland October 29, 2024. (Magnus Froederberg/norden.org/Nordic Council/Handout via Reuters)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks at the opening of the Nordic Council session in Reykjavik, Iceland October 29, 2024. (Magnus Froederberg/norden.org/Nordic Council/Handout via Reuters)

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Ukraine's allies to stop "watching" and take action to tackle the presence of North Korean troops in Russia before they start confronting his country in combat.

Zelenskiy, in a video posted on Telegram, said North Korea had made progress in its military capability, missile deployment and weapons production and "now unfortunately they will learn modern warfare".

"The first thousands of soldiers from North Korea are near the Ukrainian border. Ukrainians will be forced to defend themselves against them," he said. "And the world will watch again."

Zelenskiy said Ukraine had pinpointed every location where North Korean soldiers were posted in Russia. But Kyiv's Western allies, he said, had not supplied the long-range weapons needed to strike them.

"But instead of such necessary long-range capability, America watches, Britain watches, Germany watches...," he said.

"Everyone in the world who truly wants the Russian war against Ukraine not to expand....must not just watch. They must act. Words about the inadmissibility of escalation and expansion of war must be matched with actions."

The slick three-minute video interspersed his comments with images of North Korea's soldiers and missile launches as well as images of the war and the United Nations.

The video follows an interview with South Korea's KBS television on Thursday in which Zelenskiy blasted what he described as his allies' "zero" response to Russia's deployment of North Korean troops.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday there were 10,000 North Korean troops in Russia, including as many as 8,000 in the southern Kursk region where Ukrainian forces launched an incursion in August.

North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Friday that his country would back Russia until it achieved victory in the Ukraine war.