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Ukraine says it downs drones over Kyiv, debris sets shop ablaze

Rescuers work at the site where a building was damaged in the night by Russian drone strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 28, 2023. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via REUTERS

Ukrainian authorities said air defences shot down Russian drones near Kyiv on Monday and falling debris set a non-residential site ablaze, but no casualties were found.

Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv city military administration, said Russia had launched 12 drones towards Kyiv but Ukraine's air defence forces had identified and destroyed "all enemy targets" in the airspace around the capital.

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